By Dr. Kevin Vost, Catholic Exchange - We live in a day of increasing polarization, presented with the false dichotomy of having to choose between the scientism of the intelligent, courageous, and godless secular scientists and the fideism of ignorant, benighted, and bigoted fundamentalist Bible-thumpers... The Catholic Church, however, has never been the Church of either-or but of both-and insofar as there are kernels of truth in each side.