She shrugged. “Maybe he is making sense. Maybe we’re just not trying hard enough to understand.” - Ken Wharton

“And we know that Burnouts are prone to fighting; it’s just a matter of time before they attack us.”
Channing had heard these reports a hundred times. He had tried to explain that they were inventing imaginary dangers because no real ones threatened.

Feelings of desperation clouded his mind. Could this be? Was this the final trap of a “provable” religion based purely on science? Was it inevitable that advances in scientific knowledge would disprove any religion, given enough time? And if science kept advancing, if they could never know everything, then no religion could ever be eternally true. In his last sermon Paul had claimed that science had backed God into a tiny corner of the unknown; but what if known science was the tiny corner, and the unknown lay vaster than anyone had imagined? If so, how could any religion ever claim to be compatible with science?

As remarkably strange as this event was, after a very short while he began to get bored. One of the great human abilities, he thought: tuning out the most fantastic events just because they happen slightly too often.