As for science, Newton, Faraday, Fleming, Clerk-Maxwell, Kelvin etc were all strong Christians who didn't see a contradiction between faith and science.
To openly declare that you you were not religious in the UK until fairly recently would mark someone out as quite odd. These men would need sponsorship so they they could hardly say anything different.
Science after all is undeniable as it's the testing of observable theses. I would contend that macro evolution is not strictly science as it's not observed and can't be tested. It's a theory. Micro evolution is science as it can be observed.
No it is as factual as the theory of gravity. We know the mechanisms now.
I think it a good thing that the religious get to know more about each other's (from my perspective) very similar ideas. Perhaps it should be compulsory.