As Stephen C. Meyer outlines in Return of the God Hypothesis, science-based skepticism is often cited as the cause of religious decline: ‘In one poll, more than two-thirds of self-described atheists and one-third of self-described agnostics affirm that “the findings of science make the existence of God less probable”’. This leads most of us to assume that there is a ‘deep or inherent conflict between science and faith’ — that the two are not only at war now, but that they always have been. However, as Meyer explains, this is ‘a product of late nineteenth-century historical revisionism’. Some of history’s greatest scientists (including Isaac Newton) saw the two as not only compatible but dependent.