Then you need to read "The Evangelical Rejection of Reason." It's an excellent op-ed column in the New York Times by Karl W. Giberson and Randall J. Stephens, professors at Eastern Nazarene College.
Giberson and Stephens wrote a "wish I'd said that" piece to counter the anti-intellectual fundamentalism of attention-grabbers such as Ken Ham, David Barton and James Dobson.
They provide a concise and compelling case for the integration of faith and reason. You don't have to despise science and hate knowledge to follow Christ.
Faith and science each seek truth. They seek it from different directions, but those searches are not mutually exclusive. It's like my pastor/father has been preaching for more than five decades: "Science seeks to answer 'What?' and 'How?' Faith answers 'Who?' and 'Why?'"
Of course, all this is a shock to fundamentalists of various faiths, as well as atheists. They have much more in common than they will admit.
If you balance the claims of science and the Bible and you wish you could answer critics from the left and right, read Giberson and Stephens.
And finally, here's a shout-out of appreciation to my friend Dick Bridges, a faith-filled pastor who reasons well, and who mentioned the profs' op-ed piece.
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