Examining everything carefully and holding fast to what is good

Science is a method for determining the consistency and repeatability of processes. If you want results that aren't just a "fluke" science is a method to obtain results with a defined level of consistency. Science deals with everyday things and provides explanations based on testable evidence and reasoning based on similar events and processes. Science supports the way we think about things based on evidence of repeatedly observable and demonstrable effects. Curiously, the scientific method has interesting roots in Biblical texts and may owe some of its fundamental approaches to the devout scientists (back then they were called Naturalists) such as Newton, Darwin, and Maxwell, that indelibly shaped scientific thinking.

Scientific methods are about observing, testing, and repeating this process.

Ultimately it is an issue of humility, the idea that we could be wrong and therefore we need to continually observe and test. Humility is an often forgotten cornerstone of the Christian faiths, as is observation/testing, the Apostle Paul says in Thessalonians 5:21 "Test all things. Hold fast to what is good." another translation says "Examine everything carefully; hold fast to what is good". This is at the heart of the scientific process and is consistent with the geographical and historical convergence of the renaissance, the birth of modern science, and the highly analytical Protestant faiths in Europe.

The biggest danger is both science and religion are making absolute claims about things without the understanding that certainty only exists in the way we chose to think about things. Absolute and tangible certainty is never supplied by Christian (or Abrahamic) religions because that would negate faith. Faith is the belief that something is real. Faith is NOT a replacement for real things nor does it ever imply certainty. Indeed faith is measured by acting as if something were certain. In science, we use a very similar thinking tool called hypotheses, which are structured as "If-->Then" statements. In a hypothesis, we use axioms or assumptions then work through a problem as if the assumption or axiom were certain. The goal in both science and Christian religion should be to remember that certainly is just a mental tool and to remember to test all things and hold fast to what is good.