I think a big part of the mental blocked on both sides is people generally not understanding the difference between fact and faith.

Knowledge is about fact. It’s the realm of science, empiricism, and logic. If it can be understood and known, it belongs here.

Faith is about the unknowable (not the unknown). It’s a choice to believe something without evidence because that evidence cannot exist.

You can’t both believe something and know it.

Understanding that faith and science don’t intersect allows people to hold spiritual beliefs without rejecting knowledge and science. They don’t conflict because they’re entirely separate.

Some people aren’t wired with the mental flexibility to embrace both spiritually and empiricism. Some reject science, while others reject faith, and neither understand the other.