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The problem many humans have is that they think science exists apart from God, Who is the Author of that discipline.

He is the Author of science, but he is not a character in it. The problem is that many people -- on both sides of the debate -- have got the mindset that all truth (and Truth) must be provable by science. We need to accept that science has its limitations in what it can explain.

Frankly, it's something that I've only realized in the past year or so.

Science has an empircist bias. That limits what it can investigate but that doesn't invalidate religion. They both approach the issue of knowledge and truth from different ends, so to speak. The 19th Century assumed science was a complete, determinist and closed system with all the questions answered. Kurt Godel later showed such an ideal was impossible. So did Werner Heisenberg. No thinking person alive today can presume the findings of science lend support to the idea of a world with no God in it. They do not. If truth is incomplete, dynamic and open ended many possibilities present themselves. Unlike in Darwin's day, no one pretends to understand everything out there. New discoveries await us as long as there remain questions to be answered and the only safe thing one can say is they will never end. Its in our nature as human beings to try to better understand the world God gave us and using our gifts to figure out how it works. Insofar as this is the role of science, the role of religion is to help Man find his place in a world in which knowledge grows the day by leaps and bounds and we can barely assimilate what we've already learned.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")