Science and Religion.

We may think the charged relationship between science and religion is mainly a problem, but I am surprised at the great divide of Science& religion not being able to close the chasm that seems to only widen after so many centuries.
To a lay person who is not conditioned or exposed to the fundamentally opposing points of view both can appear as a mirror with two faces both reflecting unbelievable stuff. Yet the amazing thing is the foundational aspects of both are the same. Both claim that something was created out of nothing, which to a normal person is unbelievable.

Scientists believe in the random evolution of life forms; while Religion states that an Omnipotent god created Cosmos and life forms. Creating something out of nothing is pure religious science fiction, reflecting the anguish of the ordinary man who does not know which way to turn.

Scientists are a network of nutty professionals with recognized expertise and competence in a particular domain; they have a shared set of normative and principled scientific beliefs and are an isolated lot. Religious priests have shared causal beliefs, which they derived from their religious scriptures, with a shared notion of validity and a common policy enterprise. Such a community is the means by which religious ideas become practices and norms/dogmas are set for society to follow without question.

As such, the conversation is structured around a complicated opposition between, science on the one hand, with its scientific postulate for evolution, against the thematized vivid, primitive, life-and-death scriptures of God creating man, insects and flower as a grand design for civilization.
Religion without science is blind, and science without religion is lame.
Should we roam freely and confidently between scientific explanatory and textual notes of science, or view the mirrors of our souls, in the strongly entrenched religious scriptures. Many prefer to ignore both camps and follow their hearts. –Vinay-