Too many intelligent people, Ricky writes, "have felt the findings of science have justified ignoring religion. As we move toward a post-modernist world view, many religious thinkers and scientists have begun to ask whether the modernist split between religious values and scientific fact ought to be as clean as we've made it." A former member of our congregation, the Rev. Ricky Hoyt is now minister at theUnitarian Universalist Church of the Verdugo Hills , La Crescenta.