Why can’t there be some sort of concession between the two? What’s to say that God didn’t grant us these brains precisely for us to have these debates and doubts?
My philosophy is that I’d like to think there’s a God, although I can’t prove it, and I appreciate what mankind has been able to achieve through our use of reason and logic.
Science doesn’t have to be at odds with religion - both are tools to be used towards discovering the truth.
Science asks people to observe reality and test theories for accuracy, abandoning views that cannot hold up to testing, and building a world based on what is proven to be real and what works. Science that has not been corrupted by political agendas is the pursuit of objective truth and the advancement of real knowledge.
Religion asks people to accept things as being true without any evidence, ability, or desire to test these beliefs, leading people to the inevitable outcome of believing things that aren't true because it feels better than admitting something they want to believe is false, which in turn creates huge portions of the population who are operating based on self-righteous falsehoods, and developing a pattern of behavior that doesn't push them toward critical thinking.
Religion and science are most definitely at odds. Science puts human beings in outer space, religion puts them on a burning pyre for noticing truths that threaten religious narratives and weaken their claims to absolute authority which are based on mythological lies.
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