All the so-called "higher religions" are having a hard time coming to terms with "modernism," especially with the "truths" discovered by the scientific method. This applies even to Christianity which in some ways has been both the initiator and the long-term opponent of modernism with which it has been battling for longer than the other religions.

I believe that the central problem is a failure to recognise that science and religion use language in very different ways. Science (and to some extent philosophy also) attempts to arrive at the truth about the world by vigourously logical...