text: I think Catholics should have difficulty with science, and vice-versa. When I hear people say that the two are complementary, I wonder how much they understand about either.
  Let's begin with the obvious: science directly contradicts so many of the fundamentals of just about every religion, the premises of both cannot be true. A 14-billion-year-old universe that contains  billions of galaxies, each of them containing  billions of stars and planets, seems unlikely to be the project of a God uniquely concerned with beings who inhabit one tiny planet inhabiting a dying star in one corner of one galaxy, or to be redeemed by the life and death of a man who lived only a few short years ago.
  Neither is it easy to understand how folks claim science is compatible with evolutionary faith, when evolution, properly understood, points not to some mythical Christogenesis, but to extinction as the fate of all planets and species. 
  I cannot imagine how extinction is compatible with Christian faith.