We are a society in desperate need of healing; these days, we cannot even find agreement in diagnosis. Consider the issue of vaccination, which raises the specter of science in conflict with individual values and, particularly in some cases, with faith. Our society has long treated science and faith as competing narratives. What if we instead recognised science and religion as two halves of a societal consensus that must connect in order to learn from one another?

A common strategy to reconcile faith and science is to assign them each their own sphere to ease conflict, but this makes it all too easy to avoid the hard questions and oversimplifies the issues faced by humanity today. Science offers a model of the world that, when it is strong, is predictive and quantified. It provides a rational and informed basis for making decisions. Science, though, cannot make societal decisions for us, according to the Tribune News Service.

For this, we turn to our values, which for many are housed within faith.........

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