Can Religion and Science Coexist?

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13. Not here in East Jesus.

The local papers seem to run at least one letter or editorial per week "disproving" evolution. I keep waiting for the absolute deluge of Nobel Prizes that should be coming soon.

Just last week, one of the local savants wrote that, to convince religious believers, science needs to provide irrefutable proof of evolution.

Say what? Science doesn't do irrefutable. If somebody refuted the theory of gravity tomorrow, science would just get busy adjusting to the idea.

Religion does irrefutable. But not very well.

Example: I just read a history of the Papacy, and many modern Catholics must be unknowingly headed straight to Hell. Depending on whether their ancestors followed the Irrefutable Truths of the Pope in Avignon or the Pope in Rome. Since those two spent much of the 14th century merrily excommunicating all of each other's followers.