Note: I don't really know what to believe when it comes to religion, I'm still on the lookout for something (religion or otherwise) that makes sense to me. I u

Note: I don't really know what to believe when it comes to religion, I'm still on the lookout for something (religion or otherwise) that makes sense to me. I understand what you are saying, but I have to say that I disagree. For some people, its all well and good to treat religion as another tool for answering a particular set of questions. However, for a lot of people, religion is a belief in a set of truths on which the universe is based. If you believe this, then it doesn't make sense to say that religion can't answer certain questions. In fact, the logical conclusion of this line of thought would be that science is in fact the study of rules which god encoded into the universe, i.e. it is one of many ways to gain an understanding of god. But, if you believe this, you can't separate religion from science. So what does this say about when scientific results contradict religious texts/beliefs? I would say it means one of two things: 1) They are speaking in a different language that both happen to use the same English (or whatever) words and therefore can't be compared directly. 2) Someone got something wrong. Either the scientists are wrong (e.g. need more data and better models) or the texts got it wrong (e.g. a problem in transcription and/or translation from the word of god to something we humans can understand).