Science vs Religion?

Pitting science against religion “has never made sense to me. People get their own definitions of God, declare that God made one planet, only, and that everything else revolves around us. They call it a scientific fact,” Madeleine remarks. “Suddenly that gets blown to bits. Now we find we’re a planet that circles around a sun and there are probably many planetary systems, many galaxies. We’ve learned how much we don’t know—but God didn’t get blown to bits, just the original ‘fact’!” she exclaims, her voice showing her passion for the subject.

~ from a Madeleine L'Engle profile in a catholic magazine from June 2000.

Speaking of Madeleine L'Engle....

I found an online copy of the 2004 New Yorker profile of Madeleine L'Engle. In some ways it was a bit shocking to see that many members of L'Engle's family disagree with her memoirs.

L'Engle's family habitually refer to all her memoirs as "pure fiction," and, conversely, consider her novels to be the most autobiographical — though to them equally invasive — of her books.

I'd wondered from where in L'Engle's experience she drew the various serial wives of Certain Women or the arrangements in A Severed Wasp. Not that she can't make things up, mind, she certainly does, but ... there are things that experience vastly helps with.