Christians must stop capitulating to the idea that Christianity is only about faith/values. Christianity is about faith and values, but it is not only about faith and values. Christianity is also grounded in reason and truth--it presents a full-orbed, robust worldview.
In a similar vein, most modern science is also involved in the pursuit of truth, yet it requires faith--faith in philosophical naturalism. As atheist Michael Ruse has said, "I must admit in this one complaint that the biblical literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today."
Unfortunately, philosophical materialists have continually worked to recast religion as subjective feeling, but evolution as objective truth. Most materialists would flatly reject the idea that they hold religious beliefs.
Historian Jacques Barzun wrote, the so-called warfare between science and religion should really be seen as the warfare between two philosophies and perhaps two faiths."
Perhaps the question we all should be asking is which worldview system--which religion as it were--best accounts for all of life.
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