In this day, it's en vogue to say that if you think rationally, then you give up Christianity. No doubt this seems true. In fact, many churches also promote this view (either implicitly or explicitly). The internet is filled with anecdotes about teenagers who came with the hard questions, yet their pastors/elders/"heroes" in the church just told them to have more faith.
Talk about a recipe for unbelief.
The sad thing is that this is a complete misunderstanding, promoted by both Christians and non-Christians alike. Last time I professed that I am both a scientist and a Christian, but I didn't say why. Here it is: Science was birthed out of a Christian world. It borrows Christian ideas about the world as basic philosophical foundations. And most importantly (at least for me): scientific, philosophical, and historical evidence undergirds, rather than erodes, the reasonableness of belief in the God of the bible.
But don't take my word for it. Here are a few sites that would agree (and these are far from exhaustive; they are just the ones that I thought of off the top of my head):
www.reasons.org
www.str.org
www.reasonablefaith.org
www.godandscience.org
www.thepoachedegg.net
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