There are numerous books and articles debating the idea of science and faith interact. I'd like to take a different angle touching on the same theme.

When we think of science all sorts of specifics come to mind: from math equations, to physical formulas, string of DNA and the latest smartphone. There are many branches of science, with various theoretical and practical applications in the real world.

Using a popular understanding of the idea of faith: "trust or confidence in someone or something" lets look at how science functions as faith. Simply put, saying I have faith expresses a high degree of confidence. Through this lens, science can be seen as the defining tool that gives those who ascribe to it a way to All fine and good so far. The Bible doesn't tell us how to build smartphones or how to engineer bridges. Rather it tells us who God is, how we can relate to him and how we should relate to our fellow man and the earth we are on.

Where the religions perspective and science really come head to head is when taking a stand on the nature of the universe we live in: namely, is it made of only matter or is there some more, something metaphysical about it? Naturalistic science says no or at best be can't know it, since it can't be proven by empirical methods.

Science is faith when it makes claims about things that it can't prove.

This is not a bad things. It is for those who think faith is a bad thing but I would argue to problem there is an understanding of faith. It's a calculated decision based on the trust of an entity. In this case, it's the body of scientific research and the rigors that canonized it.

The most intellectually honest stance on the nature of ultimate reality and nature of the universe would be to say that one does not know in other words an agnostic perspective. That is fair. For things that go beyond the physical, a good approach would be to keep an open mind and continue investigating all claims on the merits of those who make them.