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No. Spend any amount of time studying physics and evolutionary biology, and see if you're still asking this question.
god is dead.
How do you know? How do we know that there aren't those multitudes of Budhas in some blissful afterlife or that Zeus and the Olympians didn't once touch the mountain and throw lightning bolts (They're gods. I imagine they could have found another mountain to live on)? How do we know that they weren't all aliens visiting us in the past just like the History Channel seems to want us to believe (for ratings) or any number of other possibilities? Just by the science of it all? We only know so much of our universe. Sure, we're learning a little more about it every day and everything but still even in a million of our lifetimes we may never fully understand our universe or what the universe holds. The universe would end before we've learned everything. We are pretty much ants in a box. We can only really scratch the surface of what reality and everything really is.
It is a certainty that religion and RATIONAL thought cannot coexist. Postulating (and acting as tho) something (that can't be established ) exists is a mind-destroyer.
I think neither religion (in this case Christianity) and science are exactly how we see and/or interpret them. Human pride plays a part in BOTH cases for doing disservice to the other. There is prejudice on both sides. Nature is not changing, per se, but science is, in that scientists are constantly revising and/or changing current theories as they make new discoveries. The same can be said, to a smaller extent about our beliefs, knowledge of Christianity/Religion (I won't speak for other religions as I have not practiced them). I personally believe neither is quite exactly as we make them out to be, but intertwine more perfectly than we can perceive.
I certainly think they can co-exist - interesting and thought-provoking question.
Years ago, I read an interesting book called Science Ponders Religion by Harlow Shapley -- just looked it up and it is on Amazon -- might well be worth reading.
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