“And a different part of the answer is the failure to educate ourselves about how to reconcile the teachings of Torah with the teachings of science.”
No “reconciliation” is necessary. The Torah is eternal, as true today – in every sense and in every word – as it was 3,500 years ago. “Science” is overturned once newer science disproves older science. Just because science says something now that does not mean that tomorrow a newer science will disprove and overturn it.