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Facts are weak things when they face personal philosophies. It’s scary to let go of your assumptions of how the world works, to be left with only a set of incomplete, seemingly unconnected data points. It is far easier to ignore or dispute a study from Princeton’s physics department than to readjust your core beliefs about where the universe came from. Especially when the Princeton study is impossible to read and Genesis tells two awesome, different stories.

And science is vulnerable to being disputed, because, as Nietzsche argued in "Human, All Too Human," we’ve mistakenly elevated it to another form of salvation, so it’s just a watered-down religion: "Modern science has as its goal: as little pain as possible, as long life as possible — thus a kind of eternal bliss." An eternal bliss that is full of hanging out in a lab and never meeting girls, so really more eternal than bliss.