In principle, there cannot be a contradiction between science and religion. Difficulties and conflicts which may arise originate in a failure of human understanding rather than in a contradiction in the nature of things. The more one knows about the universe, the more one knows about God. The sense of the divine beauty of all things also leads a person to be a responsible steward of creation. The dignity of the person.
Human beings share the dignity that everything in creation shares.
But the dignity of the person is qualitatively different and much higher. Created in God's image and likeness, each person shares in God's power to think, love, create, and choose. The more a person develops these powers, the more human a person becomes, the more that person participates in God's life. Hope in the presence of evil. Moral evil arises from a free choice to misuse creation.