I am in full agreement with your assertion that faith and science need not be in opposition. I have said this repeatedly in these threads; Science in entirely neutral when it comes to God. I fail to see why someone's faith should be challenged by the big bang or evolution. These are simply the tools that God used to create the universe. To my way of looking at it, it's much more impressive to be able to create everything we see around us by just causing one "explosion" of space-time and designing laws of nature in such a way as to lead inevitably from that one event to everything we observe in the universe than it is for God to have to create each and every thing in the universe separately. Far from challenging my faith, the big bang and evolution reinforce it. While there may be modifications to these theories in the future, it still is awe-inspiring to think of a God who can design and do all of this in that way.
The assumption by creationists that science must be wrong, because there understanding of it does not comport with what they misinterpret the Bible to say is the problem.