Thinking About Faith in God: How Belief Makes Science Possible

For many decades, militant atheism and religious dogmatism have fed off each other. Each intellectual argument and rhetorical flourish acts as encouragement and cause for further passion in the other.

Into this mix, author Jonathan Clatworthy offers a different alternative: To reject neither reason nor God, because believing in God makes sense.

Clatworthy starts by outlining the history of our current problem. The antagonism between belief and science, he says, is the product of a unique his...