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It’s a shame that the collision of faith and science often becomes an either/or prospect. The Jesuits are a great example of the fusion of inquiry and faith. While Genesis is a story that has outlived its shelf life, there’s no compelling reason to put God and evolution in separate bins. Unfortunately, Marx’s observation about the way the masses use faith is too often true. Human beings are anxious creatures. Faiths offer fixed answers to those who crave them, whereas the scientific narrative is by its nature under constant challenge. The real conflict seems to be between people who want a fixed, immovable universe and those who see a mobile universe, not between people of faith and people of science. Heck, the two terms themselves are hardly mutually exclusive.