I was recently watching a program about Dark Matter, that invisible stuff that makes up huge elements of the universe – or so some say. It was interesting to follow the logic of the arguments as scholars tried to explain their thinking. It seems to boil down to a matter of faith and trust. Taking the physics and mathematics we know and can proved our universe should not work as it does. So to balance this out, because obviously it does work, a new theory of the universe had to be expressed and so things like constants were introduced and theoretical elements included to make the maths and physics meet up. After all we can’t have a situation of a world beyond our understanding can we? We have to work out everything, understand the mechanics of everything. This curiosity is good and our sense of enquiry and understanding has lead to many discoveries. But we do have a problem, one of faith or trust. We have all these different educated people taking varying views on the ideas and seldom able to agree on many things let alone everything. But statements are made that this is the way the world works, this is the height and depth of our knowledge – but in reality they are only working ideas – our best guess at the moment and when we take out all the things we have had to insert into the ideas to make the maths add up we are left with very little we actually know for certain. So these men and women of knowledge take an awful lot on faith and yet they can question, challenge and even ridicule people who start from a position of faith. Instead of seeking to put science into one corner and faith or religion into another we would do well to let them play together mutually informing each other with their insights and helping them to grow. When we read the opening creation narrative of Genesis it is amazing how closely it reflects the pattern science has developed and stuck the label evolution on it. Both are matters of faith.