So whether science has anything to say about God depends on what the claims are made in the name of religion. The assumption is precisely what is disputed by many religionists and it is neither an established fact, nor an uncontroversial philosophical claim. Defenders of scientific naturalism will therefore have to keep their philosophical wits about them. This was probably the most depressing issue of New Scientist that I have ever read. Just for the record, I count myself a Christian.
Scientists are too nice.
We hope that logic and truth will overcome blind prejudice and fanatical bigotry. The confused and largely ignorant world wants sound-bite politics so that it can whoop and cheer when a point is scored. It does not want to be convinced of the rightness or soundness of anything. Scientists are hopelessly wrong in trying to counter the mad viewpoint of creationism by reason. If the Bible is literally true then if even one word of it can be shown to be wrong or in doubt, the whole edifice of fundamentalism is weakened.