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. . . the speaker started talking about how science and faith could actually work together. Jesse had never really thought about it like that before. In school, science was always about facts and experiments, things you could prove. Faith, though, was more personal—something you believed even if you couldn’t see it or explain it.

As the speaker went on, they shared stories of famous scientists who were also religious. Jesse had never realized that people like that could exist—people who believed in God but also trusted science. The speaker said that science helps us understand how the world works, but faith helps us understand why it’s here in the first place.

Jesse paused the video for a moment. Could it really be possible for both science and faith to matter at the same time? Jesse had always felt torn between the two, like they were pulling in opposite directions. But maybe they didn’t have to fight. Maybe they were both just ways of searching for the truth, from different angles.

When the video ended, Jesse put the phone down, feeling a little more at ease. Maybe it was okay to not have all the answers, and maybe, just like science and faith, Jesse could find a way to bring different parts of life together.

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    Understanding Generation Z’s Religious and Spiritual Role Models

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