This attitude that religion has nothing to do with science, and science (though it proports to explain everything...) goes straight back to Emanuel Kant, and is the root of liberal lunacy. Put religious over there in that box, don't let it influence real life, and everything will be fine.
Marxists and Fascists alike agreed. Religion was at best used to manipulate people, not something to base life on.
All the great ancient universities were founded by the religious, and even the philosophy that says nature has objective laws that can be discovered (i.e. SCIENCE) is demonstrably from a religious root...that a stable law-giving God made a stable, law-abiding universe.
The whole frantic reaction against someone just putting what can be merely theistic evolution (that God guided evolution) -- on to more specifically creationist models (Intelligent Design is from it foundation a umbrella movement) is evidence of the philosophical, non-scientific basis of much of the professional scientific establisment...
No scientist objected when Carl Sagan (or Dawkins) put atheistic religious dogma into their "science" but let the religious say that just to believe in God says you MUST believe He made the universe--and "ohhh noooooooo! The Muja-Hadin fundamentalists are taking over!!!"
Make no mistake about it, if one is a Christian, Jew or even just a theist, you by your very nature, believe in Intelligent Design.
Either God made the world or He didn't. If He didn't, there simply is no God worthy of any sort of devotion or worship.
Thank God for our Intelligent Designer.
Strange that it is the scientists who posit design and the religious grab design as the modern evolution of creation.