It's more like the other way around. Ever since the Enlightenment - heck, ever since Galileo - the Church has been trying to keep the faith intellectually respectable as new scientific discoveries have kept threatening specific literalist interpretations of the Bible.
Some scientific theories are so well-supported that it would be foolish for the Church to try to deny them in order to save a particular piece of dogma. So they re-interpret the Biblical passage or the dogma instead, thus protecting the faith.
Other sects have chosen to d@mn the science, full speed ahead (to varying degrees). It's a very open marketplace of ideas.
(In the opinion of this former Catholic, long-since atheist.)
If you are an atheist now, you never were a Catholic. IMHO
Sorry to hear that. I can understand a disenchantment with the Catholic church but to deny all of Scripture is throwing the cat out with the bath water.
What made you decide there was no God?
Scientific discoveries have been more threatening to materialism but materialism is a more emoitional, less reasonable faith than Christianity.
Some scientific theories are so well-supported that it would be foolish for the Church to try to deny them in order to save a particular piece of dogma. So they re-interpret the Biblical passage or the dogma instead, thus protecting the faith.
I have no idea what your basis is for statements such as these, but they're ridiculous. Science, for the open-minded and objective, has done nothing but confirm the tenets for a good chunk of what the Bible teaches regarding varying topics that would fall under the "scientific" category or hinge upon evidence within that community.
Archaeologically, there hasn't been a discovery or excavation to date that has done anything but verify the historicity of the Bible.
Those are the facts. As usual, if you want to believe that the world is flat, just like everyone on earth at one time, then feel free. ; )
Darwin never meant his theory to preclude God, and specifically acknowledged God's existence in Origin of Species.
What I think is very interesting is the modern idea that if science can explain it, then God had nothing to do with it, as though God has to have waved a magic wand in order to have accomplished anything. He's not allowed to have used anything explicable.
For example, several years ago, scientists announced the discovery of a Nova at the right time and place to have been the Star of Bethlehem. The feeling was, another myth explained!!! My own thought was, how incredible that God could cause a star to go Nova at exactly the right time for its light to arrive on earth just before the birth of His Son.
I certainly hope doubters will examine the evidence before (or even after) they reject God. A couple of things worth reading are Michael Behe's "Darwin's Black Box" and Josh McDowell's "Evidence that Demands a Verdict". The former examines the theory of evolution from a biochemical standpoint in great detail. It is a great book. The latter is a classic that most people have heard of but don't read. It makes some great points.