"The Sea of Faith was
Once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar"

So wrote Matthew Arnold in his masterful poem, 'Dover Beach.' The son of a liberal Protestant, Arnold's faith was challenged by the scholarship and scientific headwinds of the 19th Century, leaving him with little alternative but agnosticism. He nevertheless saw the value in a Christian faith shorn of its metaphysics, a kind of Christian humanism, if you like.

I can understand the deep crisis that descended upon people of faith at that time, given just how much conventional belief and wisdom was being challenged by new knowledge. We have the benefit of time passing now, allowing for a measure of reflection on issues  that Arnold could not have reasonably considered. It doesn't have to have be one or the other. I don't have any problem with God or science, no matter who argues otherwise.