Perhaps this is why teaching Science and Religion is like banging my head against a brick wall...

For some Men, that have but superficial, though conspicuous, Wits, are not fitted to penetrate such Truths, as require a lasting and attentive Speculation; and diverse, hat want not Abilities, are so taken up by their Secular Affairs, and their Sensual Pleasure, that they neither have Disposition, nor will have Leisure, to discover those Truths, that require both an Attentive and Penetrating Mind. And more than of either of these sorts of Men there are, whom their Prejudices do so forestall, or their Interest bias, or their Appetites blind, or their Passions discompose, too much, to allow them a clear Discernment, and right Judgment, of Divine Things.

- Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuoso, 1690