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There is nothing about being a Christian that makes me any better or 
worse as a scientist.  There is nothing about being a scientist that
makes me any better or worse as a Christian.  One could easily list a
hundred questions and controversies in physics.  No religion is of any
help in settling any of them.  Likewise one could list a hundred
theological questions on which physics has nothing to say. 

There is an interface between physics and religion, but it is at the
fringes. The Old Testament says "The heavens declare the glory of God". 
St Paul (first chapter of Romans, free paraphrase) said that all men are
accountable to God because he has revealed his essential attributes, his
majesty and omnipotence, in the things that he has made.  Of course you
can believe or disbelieve both propositions; physics will not help you
decide.

Throughout the ages people have noted that _if_ the physical universe
was made by an Intelligence, then the properties of that physical
universe tell us some things about that Intelligence.  For example he is
creative, orderly, logical, not parsimonious (the universe is BIG),
e-ternal (time is a part of the fabric of the universe, not of its
creator), and extremely subtle but comprehensible by us to some degree.
Also the physical universe suggests to us that its creator has other
concerns going than just the human race! 

But such arguments cannot be reversed, nor are they falsifiable in the
scientific sense.  The unbeliever can look at the very same physical
facts and attribute them to impersonal forces, or to the anthropic
principle, or to nothing at all. 

Ben