text: In my almost 40 years of teaching on a graduate level, I have found that many of my students have both a background in the sciences as well as in theology/spirituality and in other areas as well.  EVERYONE of these people that I cited above [and I can cite a whole slew of others as well] have backgrounds in science--biology, zoology, physics, astrophysics & molecular science.  In addition they are also professors who teach as well as publish their work.
  
  Our souls are made in the image and likeness of God.  But our bodies are not.  God loves creation---all of it.  Creation was/is not just a side-show for God---and God did not intend for it to be brushed aside by humanity.  Jesus did not come to just redeem humans---but all of creation.
  
  Unfortunately, too many Catholics cannot conceive of God as being capable of creating in any way except by miracles.  But God is more than capable of working with laws of science---that God created and endowed creation [including humans] to function.