It is true that in the past science and church has been in conflict, and today it is thought that modern scientific study can or will be able to explain everything, and that the results of scientific research are in conflict with biblical teaching.

Prominent scholars have commented on the above question.

"Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator".
C.S.Lewis Miracles

Dr. Peter Hodgson, lecturer in nuclear physics in Oxford University, said "Christianity provided just those beliefs that are essential for science, and the whole moral climate that encouraged its growth".
John Young The Case against Christ

The historian Herbert Butterfield stated that "science is a child of Christian thought" and the philospher John MacMurray put it like this "Science is the legitimate child of a great religious movement, and its geneology goes back to Jesus."
John MacMurray Reason and Emotion

Much of history Christianity and scientific study have been allies.

Copurnicus laid the foundations of modern astronomy and held office as a Canon of Frauenberg Cathedral. He described God as "the best and most orderly workman of all"

Galileo said "There are two big books, the book of nature and the book of supernature, the Bible"

Kepler the founder of modern optics, best know for his discovery of the three principles of planetary motion, a sincere Christian, commented that he was "thinking God's thoughts after Him".

Sir Isaac Newton, considered by many to be one of the greatest scientists of all time believed in the inspiration of the scriptures and wrote theological books as well as scientific works.

Faraday discovered the phenomenen of electromagnetic induction and he considered his Christian faith the most important influence upon him.

The same is true for many other pioneering scientists. Lister who pioneered antispetic surgery; Pasteur originated pasteurization; Mendel helped form the basis of the science of genetics; Kelvin the founding of modern physics;Maxwell formulated electromagnetic theory.

One of the leading scientists of our day is Reverend Dr. John Polkinghorne, president of Queens' College, Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society, who was professor of mathmatical physics before his ordination in 1983, wrote:

Men of religion can learn from science what the physical world is really like in its structure and long-evolving history. This constrains what religion can say where it speaks of that world as God's creation. He is clearly a patient God who works through process and not by magic. Men of science can receive from religion a deeper understanding than could be obtained from science alone. The physical world's deep mathematical intelligibility (sings of the Mind behind it) and finely tuned fruitfulness (expressive of divine purpose) are reflections of the fact that it is a creation.
John Polkinghorne The Daily Telegraph

Even Stephen Hawking, considered the most brilliant scientist of this generation, has admitted that "science may solve the problem of how the universe began, but it cannot answer the question: Why does the universe bother to exist?" Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

One of the biggest arguments is creation versus evolution. It is easier to believe that God created something out of nothing than to believe that nothing created something out of nothing. Towards the end of his life Charles Darwin wrote of "the impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man, as a result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to the first cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man and I deserve to be called a theist".

Albert Einstein wrote "A legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

We cannot find the God of the bible through science alone and God is not discoverable by purely scientific means. We need revelation from God and it is only through His special revelation of His Son Jesus Christ that we can find Him.

"Scientists, or anyone else, without religion, have to face a world in which there is no real purpose, no meaning to torment and joy, and accept that when we are dead we vanish, that there is no after-life"
Wolpert The Times

Science has nothing to say to these deep levels of human experience. Science is unable to solve the moral dilemmas of humankind. It has no remedy for the problem of unforgiven sin and guilt. Only in the Cross of Christ do we find the answer to these problems and salvation for our souls.