Science must adhere to the nonreligious principals of re-examination, testing, demand for evidence and repletion of a single outcome.
(2,500 different religions, 3,700 different god groups, a clear correlation between place of birth and prominent religion... that's definitely not single)
In a nut shell:
Scientific method is NOT religious as it must reject the concept of belief, of faith, in order to avoid bias.
It should serve no purpose but knowledge.
Science is objective, science is open to challenge and change, science has no dogma.
You don't use the word "believe" with regards to scientific results.
If you "believe" in science, you are doing it wrong.
Scientific research, and conclusion are to be learned and understood.
Not believed.
Scientific method begins with observation, not conclusion.
If you use "god" as part of an assertion, that - for example - is already reaching a conclusion before researching.
So - No.
There is also no way to compare or reconcile between science and religion as the former is methodological and requires testing, examination, peer review, repeating results;
and the latter is...well... wishful thinking, faith.
The 2 do not mix, and have nothing to do with each other.
Religion is NOT trying to keep up with science. Religion is as it always has been, except for the following little detail.
Science has grown by leaps and bounds. People who like science, wish that it would grow even farther. So they project the things they want to see in science, as though science has already proven those things, when science has not proven them. This is the way that people have made science an addition to religion.
Religious people are like people with a Down Syndrome. Everybody knows they are retarded but nobody dares to say it out laud.
One day, religions will be regarded as mental disorders. Maybe even treated with genetic treatments early on, at conception or shortly thereafter.
I wish this would start in the media and the universities. All these media and university people project science religion. How? They suggest to average people on the streets, that some science theories including big bang theory, black hole theory, evolution theory, relativity, etc. are fact. When average people start believing these unknowns to be fact, they are treating science as a religion.
It's about time that we base our religion and science and on facts. This doesn't mean that we need to have all the facts. But we need to recognize which things are facts and which are not.
The scientific facts of cause and effect, entropy, and complex universe prove the existence of God (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.16961242). This means that God is a fact of both science and religion. From there we can start to prove which of the things that supposedly are said by God are really said by God. We can also start to prove which science theories are really factual, and should be elevated to the status of science law (science fact).
As it is, many hopeful people of both religion and science are projecting things that are not known to be fact as though they were fact.
NO THEY ARE NOT theory, IS NOT FACT..UNTIL PROVEN TO BE SO..
NOW PRAY TO THE WHEEL..IT ASK FOR PROOF..
God was once a theory now proven to be a lie ..