Rowan Williams writes “…the examination of where the points of stress [between faith and atheism] are…allows us to test the resources of what we say as believers – and, ideally, to emerge with a more robust sense of those resources.”[1] Prominent among these points of stress is the perceived conflict between “science” (often used as a proxy for atheism) and “religion.” Here, taking as an example the dialogue between Williams and militant scientific atheist Richard Dawkins, I will outline ways of clarifying areas of belief and disbelief, consider whether belief is actually essential to faith and look at ways of separating the territories of science and religion. I will show…