Science, the Starting Point of Faith

Faith gives an answer to questions like: Why do we exist? What is the meaning of life? Why is there something instead of nothing? Nuclear physics, chemistry or mathematics can’t answer those questions. That is not their domain. The question the scientist wants to answer is how our world works. For centuries, people thought and believed that they could find the answer to that question in the Bible. It has only been a few centuries since Christians started to disassemble these questions, an unravelling that is still going on.
Many people say that they believed as a child, but that they lost their faith when they discovered science. One of the reasons for this is that many people’s knowledge of faith has been limited to the knowledge they had of it when they were children. It is not surprising that such a belief is undermined by the confrontation with scientific thinking. For others, it is precisely the practice of science that is the starting point of a path of faith: Who or what is at the origin of this incredibly beautiful cosmos? 

Nikolaas Sintobin SJ, Did Jesus Really Exist? And 51 other questions