Science and religion likely are as different from one another as are science and art.  It is when one expects them both to speak the same language and to draw exactly the same conclusions about life that serious conflict arises.  If the scientist, in the name of science, talks about God, immortality, and the ultimate values of life, he is trespassing on the territory of religion and philosophy where he has no legitimate right to be.  If the student of religion, on the other hand, interprets the scriptures as textbooks in astronomy, physics, geology, and biology, he is trespassing in the field of science and is using the scriptures in a way that was not intended by their authors.

-Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 48)