When I see people who want to ‘reconcile science and religion’ I am reminded of children who want to merge Godzilla with Alien. No, actually, the progeny will be worse than the parents. Do these people want to also only have one brain hemisphere? See the problem is that actual intelligence emerges in a between that has a lot to do with conflict, so if your idea of peace is a collapse of the conflict, you have the wrong idea, and the wrong end of your intelligence, too. Conflict is absolutely crucial to insight, learning, and intelligence. When you have polarities such as these, there is a reason. North doesn’t become south because it is peaceful to do so, and without both there is … nothing, because gravity and magnetism and electromagnetism all disappear…