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I think they go hand in hand.

Science helps us understand God's universe. The applications of which (medication, computers, engineering, etc.) also brings him glory in my opinion. (:

Science is a body of knowledge. Religion is a set of beliefs and practices. Unless the beliefs conflict with the body of knowledge, they don't have to conflict.

Generally they complement each other as long as the paradigm of the religion is large enough to accept new knowledge and facts that are discovered. Also religion can be a motivator for discovering new information. Part of Christian living is caring for the sick and poor. The Christian worldview has been a motivator for discovering new advances in medicine and social reform. The person that came up with the big bang theory was influenced by his religion, wondering "Now how did God start the universe?"

Also being willfully ignorant is a form of pride, so being against new confirmed information and knowledge is counter to Christianity.

Personally, I think science and religion go hand in hand unless religion contradicts science. Science is the study of reality. What science says is what people have proven to be true, believe might be true with evidence to enforce the reasoning, and how we can enforce reasoning. The identification and verification of factual evidence as opposed to spoken or written possibilities that people simply feel or believe may be true. The Dali Lama once said, "If science proves any part of Buddhism wrong then Buddhism will have to change."

The problem occurs when people with certain beliefs refuse to relinquish those beliefs and so fight against science. They choose what they've been taught for centuries over the study of reality. In some cases this makes sense, not everything in science is proven. Much of it is still only theoretical. However, there are some people who fight it on the scale of insisting the world is flat.

So to answer your question about whether the two conflict, it really depends on the open mindedness of the religious practitioners. Science is not out to destroy religion, but instead merely to study and learn more about our reality.

science has proven itself wrong before too. unless someone is able to prove that there is no god or gods then science cannot disprove any belief system

i think science has done a good job of proving evolution is true imo, but that doesnt mean that god has had no part in it.