Anything that threatens that need gets thrown out unexamined

*nod*

And this was exactly why the church I attended was insupportable for the rational empiricist my parents raised. That's part of the hypocrisy I spoke of. I have yet to find a religion (other than rational empiricism itself, for which there doesn't seem to be pastors) that satisfies my need to reconcile science and faith.

To be balanced about it, I also find having unquestioning faith in science a bit misplaced.

:-)

So this is one reason I write fiction, LOL.