Science isn't the problem. The problem is the idea that there is no room for Faith in something greater, something perfect, and something good beyond what man can create.
We would be foolish to take on so much pride over our accomplishments in reason so as to exclude from our world view things that require simple faith. Deep within all of us the need to believe that there is a purpose to existence. Simple materialism satisfies some of us all of the time, most of us for a short time, and very few of us on our death beds.
Someone once said to never trust a man who believes in nothing. Another man retorted that we should never trust someone who believes in everything.
A wise man would ask that if the cynic and the fool cannot be trusted, what about the individual who believes in something?
Myself, I feel that I can trust a man who has faith to be who he is, even if I disagree with him. That doesn't mean that I'd trust him with my life, but I can trust a person who has strongly held beliefs to be consistent in his actions.
A cynic who believes nothing is prone to inaction and asking questions, then questioning the answers. A fool is liable to act inconsistently based on whatever beliefs have gripped him on any given day.
The Vatican is right -- true Science is nothing more than man investigating the fringes of the wonder of God.
Bible critics had long sneered at references in the Bible to a people called the Hittites (Genesis 15:20; Exodus 3:8, 17; Numbers 13:29; Joshua 1:4; Judges 1:26 and elsewhere). Their opinion was that the Hittites were simply one of the many mythical peoples made up by Bible writers. Some critics said they may have been a small and unimportant tribe. But the critics were off the beam! Toward the end of the 19th century, Hittite monuments were uncovered at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in Syria, proving the Bible right.The term Hittite was appropriated from the Bible, but applied to people who were never called that. The Biblical Hittites were indeed a tribe, listed alongside the Canaanites (and Jebusites, and some others), and living along the Mediterranean seacoast. When the Hattusas archive was discovered, the "Forgotten Empire" was invented and given a name out of the Bible. What happened instead was that further difficulty was created for Biblical literalists.
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The early discoveries were made in the Victorian era when plenty of people still took the Bible literally.
But the bigger problem with this is that the Hittites were a case where the Bible gets it right: they existed and were a significant kingdom.
But what about other ethnic groups mentioned in the Bible that haven't yet been proven to exist?
They may not have been made up by those who wrote the Bible, but they also may not have been as significant as the Hittites turned out to have been.
Between the idea that the Bible is a complete fabrication and the belief that it's exactly and literally true, there's a lot of room, and that's probably where the truth is to be found.