Scientist Troy Van Voorhis, Professor of Chemistry at MIT, argues that faith and science both have their place in helping us understand how the universe works. He puts it this way:

Of course science helps us understand how the universe works. What's not as clear is what role faith plays in this. Some would even argue this is a question that faith ought to keep away from; at best, faith provides simplistic and incorrect models that are going to be embarrassingly disproved by later scientific testing. But this argument assumes there can only be one explanation and ignores the existence of multiple layers of meaning.

Let me give you an example. You could ask me, "Troy, why is your shirt purple?" I could answer this in a scientific way: "My shirt is purple because there is a high concentration of 6,6'- dibromoindigo in the fibers that were used to weave it." I could even test that hypothesis by attempting to remove the dye from the shirt, to demonstrate the molecular reason why my shirt is purple. However, I could offer another explanation: "My shirt is purple because my wife thinks I look quite nice in purple."

Both explanations can be true.