Science and religion only find argument due to the errors of both. These errors are due to the participation of man, who is imperfect.
As creation and its laws becomes better understood, there will be less argument between the two as in the end they both have the same goal.
But since both institutions are run by man, there will always be some error.
Only God is without error, and our attempts to understand God will always be fraught with error due to our imperfection. If religion had achieved the perfect explanation of God’s universal laws, there would only be one religion in the world. Instead, even Christians for example have hundreds of competing sects, including those run by complete charlatans who are followed assiduously by mistaken adherents (Not that Christianity is alone in this).
This is why it is dangerous to put extra men between a soul and God. The more men you put in between yourself and God, the more error will be introduced.
We aren’t expected to reach perfection on this plane, we are charged with only with moving toward it. And there is no requirement that other men are the only way to lead a soul toward God. The communication lines are open directly, use them.
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”-—Robert Jastro (NASA scientist, populist author and futurist.)
In a decade of being on FR, I can’t recall ever reading a more insightful post.