This is the first part of a three-part series exploring the unfortunate war between religion and science, but better terms would be between evidence-based truth vs subculture dogma-based "truth." The church in America is dying a rapid death and part of it has resulted from the church's loss of a concept of truth. The conservative side, white evangelicals, has sacrificed the aspiration of truth for power, on the left the progressives have sacrificed it for social peace.