Many prominent scientists thoughout history and in the present day are or were devout Christians. Theology does not prevent scientific discovery and investigation.
This is of course a sterling example of the human ability to employ doublethink, or the practice of simultaneously holding (at least two) incompatible and contradictory ideas.
Please explain to me how you think scientific investigation and discovery are incompatible with theology.
It's not difficult, Alan.
The scientific endeavour is predicated on a number of things which are the direct opposite of theological 'thinking' (for want of a vastly better word, obviously).
The first is methodological naturalism, where supernaturalism - being the realm of undefined and unevidenced things doing undefined and unevidenced things, capriciously and gratuitously - is ignored.
The second is empiricism - sensory experience, direct or aided in some way (e.g. microscopes; telescopes), is the only accurate and reliable means of gathering information about the world.
A third is evidentialism - an idea is only as good as the quantity and quality of the empirical evidence in its favour. Evidence is king. Ideas have to win their place at the table not on the basis of authority or tradition but by how good they are, evidence-wise.
Fourth are the usual routines of science - testability, sometimes repeatability where applicable (it isn't, always), shareability (here's what I did; run the experiment again for yourself and see what happens), peer review (check my methods, results and thinking, please) and so forth.
There are others, but I should say that these are the most important ones which stand in clearest opposition to theology.
