It is common to hear the claim that belief in God and the practice of science are opposed to one another. To do good science and to therefore, be a good scientist, you must jettison belief in God as a primitive superstitious idea. Or so the claim goes. Is this a sound way to think about the relationship between belief in God and modern science? In this episode I explain why I think it is not and that, contrary to this idea, it was belief in God which inspired modern science.
