I believe in science

From time to time you may meet a non-believer who stoically claims to not be 'religious' because they 'believe in science'!

(This is often punctuated with the triumphant superiority of an exclamation mark!)

And, this is just what we want to hear.

Here's the pattern of your response, something along the lines of:

Oh, and is that claim itself a scientific statement? Can you prove that you believe in 'science' when most scientists over history have been mostly wrong?

You can also explore why they believe in science, when they have to trust in the ability of human reason to provide a valid means of reliable inquiry into the world outside of the person inquiring.

That is, what is the basis for confidence in a chance assembly of molecules having any reliability in assessing the nature of other chance assemblies of molecules, both of which have no external source of person-hood: it must be merely an epiphenomenon of matter?

It is very bold to make such a claim that your brain, the result of chance constrained only by reproductive success is useful for anything more than reproductive success.

See:

Reasonable Faith's article

Bethinking's article

Craig at Biola's blog

Doyle's article.

Now, on the other hand, we Christians have complete confidence in the rational accessibility of the natural world. The creation account in Genesis 1, and it's NT follow-up in John 1:1-3, 10 provide the basis for such confidence.