[SillyEvee]

You guys are totally missing my point! The point is that religious things aren't scientific, but are valid! That there are other methods than "the scientific method." Don't get me wrong, I love the scientific method and if a scientist tried to tell me that that G-d told him that DNA was the molecular basis for inheritance, I'd say "Great. Let's do some experiments and prove it scientifically!" But if a Rabbi comes up to me and says "Hey, let's light some Shabbat candles beacuse it's a great way to keep HaShem's commandments." I'm not gonna ask him for the peer-reviewed journals that indicate that G-d cares if I light Shabbat candles.
Science and religion do not MIX, but that doesn't mean they don't COEXIST. Like oil and water. Both have their uses, but they don't come together without an emulsifier. Fortunately, I think people have the potential to be fantastic emulsifiers. If we open our minds, we can glue science and religion together the way soap bonds with both science and relgion on different ends.
I'm not trying to say that they're the same or that they're interchangeable or it's necessary to have one for the other or even that you can back one up with the other.
I'm sort of saying the opposite. They're totally different! They're so way, if left to their own devices, a scientific way of thinking and a religious one will meld perfectly. BUT if we use our minds as soap, we can dissolve them in each other. If we WANT them to fit, we can find a way to fit them. If we want the oil and water to stay separate, that's fine, too. Personally, I like the homogenity in my life. I like being able to dissolve both polar and non-polar molecules. I feel like I'm missing out on less. Nobody catches everything in life, but if you can't dissolve organic molecules, you're seriously limiting yourself. If that's not your cup of tea, that's fine with me.
But don't try to tell me that an emulsion isn't possible. It is. I'm living it. If you're not soapy enough to live it, that's a shame--or not, if you feel totally fulfilled and OK living in only water or only oil.
It's not "cheating" or "deluding oneself." I actually believe it's in the true spirit of both science and religion to see how they fit rather than where they contradict. Both attempt to describe and commune with something higher, be it G-d, Allah, Jesus, Gaia, the Unified Theory of Everything, Satanism, the laws of Physics, the Goddess, the Principia Mathematica.
And that's art, too, right? It's all trying to describe the homogenity of the world. It's all an attmempt to translate the awesome transcendence of the world we live in into a language we can understand, finite beings that we are. It's all about bringing the infinity home.
It's not about saying the science backs up religion or that religion is necessary for true science. Trying to do that is like and English-speaking saying "the adjective comes BEFORE the noun!" and the French-speaker shouting back, "NO! The noun comes first!"