Science and religious faith are not strictly oppositional with one another, though surely can circumstantial be so.
Of course, science and religion can themselves get to be nebulous words which suggest a loaded host of things. Defining science is difficult, defining religion may be impossible. At least, assuming you do so descriptively and not prescriptively.
Still, if Science is just an epistemological method for gathering data that is itself absent of interpretation, then nowhere in the description of reality that science provides do we see a strict denial of religion universally.
No one needs to be religious, at least I don’t think so. However, this whole “science vs religion” thing feels like the pandering of pseudo-intellectuals, both on the side of science and religion alike.
