I believe in God, but I’m also all in on the science of the Big Bang and everything that physicists, biologists and chemists have discovered with regard to the origin and evolution of the universe and life itself. Of course I wish that I understood it better, this being a gap in my education that I am belatedly trying to rectify. I do not see my beliefs in both God and science as a contradiction. There really is no contradiction unless you believe in a literal interpretation of scripture and have an infantile conception of God that is something along the lines of a very old man way up in the sky sitting on his throne and royally POed about the awful things human beings are doing. Making his list and checking it twice, I suppose. As others here have indicated, physics and (I guess) quantum mechanics eventually lead to a knowledge that there is a reality that is beyond humankind’s ability to perceive. This is not too far, in my opinion, from the fundamental religious/metaphysical proposition that there is an ultimate reality that is transcendent of the material world and the physical laws that govern it. This ultimate reality from which Being itself came to be, we call God. God, in God’s essence, cannot be comprehended by the human mind. I believe that those who have advanced far in the practice of contemplative prayer from different religious traditions (definitely not me) come closer than anyone else to having a real conception of who God is, though their knowledge doesn’t translate very well into language that is based on empirical knowledge and purely rational reasoning.