AMA Christian , aspiring scientist Some people have throw away things like science and religion are incompatible , etc . My motivation is to do a PR for Christianity , just to show that nice people like me exist . The incompatibility between science and religion is not a throwaway , it is real , but it is a bit of a taboo topic to point out the incompatibility . But since you say you want to do an AMA on this topic I will see if I can oblige I repost this text slightly modified from an earlier post of mineIf r e l igiondivinitysupernatural is true then everything we know about science would be wrong . Let me try to give an example in the NT of the Bible includes a story of the incident of Jesus walking on water . As described this feat would require the earth ' s gravity to act differently on the person of Jesus than it did on the person of Peter nearby . Now science has determined to a high degree of certainty that gravity is not a force , it is actually a curvature of spacetime caused by the presence of the mass of the earth as specified by the Einstein filed equations . The Einstein field equations do not allow for a discontinuity in the curvature of spacetime as would be required to effect the alleged miracle of the incident of Jesus walking on water . So if the story in the Bible is true , and Jesus was able to defy physics as described in the Bible no matter if this is due to Jesus being a divine being , then our physics is wrong . Completely wrong . All of it . This is just one example , but religion in general is full of the idea that divine entities aka deities are capable of doing things that science says do not happen given that physical law or scientific law is a theoretical statement inferred from particular facts , applicable to a defined group or class of phenomena , and expressible by the statement that a particular phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions be present . The most common religious idea is that there is a divine creator entity who created the universe , normally from nothing . This feat would be a violation of the conservation laws . So if there was a divine entity who created the universe from nothing then , once again , our science is wrong . All wrong . Completely wrong . Not American Bachelor of Science , major in physics and physiology Currently doing Honours in evolution I have no doubt that you are a nice person , I just think that perhaps you haven ' t thought this through properly . So how do you reconcile your belief in Christianity and presumably therefore belief in the divine , supernatural and miraculous the fact that you aspire to be a scientist and the dilemma that if your beliefs are true then all of our science is wrong ?