It’s a well lamented question. Often asked, never really answered. Can science honestly live side by side with religion (and to a certain extent, philosophy)? Maybe we’ll find out. Often the most explainable, or inexplicable scientific facts (or lack thereof) are nonsensed by bible bashers saying “Yes, but who was in control of that happening?”. Simply put, they can dismiss solid scientific fact by saying that it was all part of God’s plan.
I’m no atheist, but then again I’m not a devout Christian. I believe in what I understand. I can’t believe that a couple of hundred years of research into Darwin and his theory of Natural Selection is all complete nonsense, yet certain people “with faith” believe that evolution should not be taught as the only way. Instead, they insist that “Intelligent Design” (i.e. God created it) should be included. That might sound like a contradiction on my part. My explanation is simply that: I’m open minded enough to see that there are lots of different possible explanations for a single phenomenon. That’s fine. So evolution, or weird alien gip forcing things to mutate. But religion in a biology class has to be a no-no.
And there we have it. Scientists can dismiss certain theories of the basis of what they can prove. People with religion can dismiss all other theories on the basis of they have faith in a higher power. There’s no middle ground.
I don’t think there’s a simple resolution.