Not really at all. My faith is not threatened by my education in and appreciation of the scientific method of learning about our natural world. I believe that an all-powerful life-force (God, if you will) would be (or is) capable of designing a method of species and natural development that we are, as yet, unable to decipher. Doesn't mean it won't ever be deciphered, but is beyond our current ability to understand.
For example, earlier civilizations of humans believed that super-human beings created the seasons and made the winters give way to spring only after a sacrifice of some sort. Now we understand that spring will follow winter eventually regardless of whether or not we sacrifice some one or some thing to the god of spring. Does that mean that science has proven that a Supreme Being is not ultimately responsible for having designed a system of natural law wherein spring follows winter? Not at all.
Science has taught us that we needn't rely on sacrifices to a supreme being to bring about the end of winter, but it hasn't shown there is no God...
We don't understand all there is to understand about science.
We don't understand all there is to understand about God.
Belief in God does not blind me to what science can offer, and reliance on the scientific method for discovering as much as we can about the natural world does not lessen my faith in God.
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