The January 2005 number of The Word (available online) has an interesting article about kids going to college and being educated right out of their faith. It includes a long (of a magazine) discussion of philosphy, history and science. I'm sure it will spark a number of letters in defense of all those intitutions. Yet I commend it to you for your reading and edification.
I most especially liked this comment (emphasis added by yer humble host):
By putting God “out of a job” (so to speak) by means of this impression, the faith of many naive students is severely weakened. Such students must ask themselves, however, if they are acting wisely when they question their faith on the basis of an illogical impression. It is better to see the problem of the origin of the universe as one that lies outside of science, because science has restricted itself through the principle that nothing comes into existence from nothingness. In other words, it is “against the rules” of doing science to raise such an issue, and the consequence of breaking the rules is that one has to sift through the resulting nonsense (namely, that the universe had no beginning, and so forth), at the risk of one’s immortal soul.Indeed: at the risk of one's immortal soul.
The issue of the origin of the universe, therefore, is a topic that lies outside or beyond science. This is, then, yet another indication that science is not a complete account of all that exists. Shakespeare’s Hamlet was right, there is more on heaven and earth than this philosophy has dreamt of (Hamlet 1.5.166-167).