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There’s something deeply funny about living in a civilization where a religious leader and a room full of scientists can look at each other and silently agree on one thing: People have completely lost their minds. Not in the cinematic, dramatic, “the sky is falling” sense. No. We’ve evolved into something much stranger. We are now a species emotionally committed to customizing reality itself. Facts are no longer facts. Truth is no longer truth. Everything is apparently a lifestyle accessory now, like water bottles with inspirational quotes or political opinions printed on camouflage hats. So when the Pope recently warned that the greatest threat shared by both religion and science is the denial of objective truth, I nearly spit out my coffee laughing—not because he was wrong, but because the statement feels like the intellectual equivalent of a firefighter calmly informing people that the building may, in fact, contain fire while everyone else is busy arguing whether flames are a so...