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The relationship between religion and science is a complex one- one that will probably be in a war-like status for as long as both exist. There are plenty of people that believe in God as well as science- doctors, scientists, etc. God, in some twisted way, is a filler for the things that we don't know, the things that we simply cannot explain. I am in no way attacking those who believe in a higher being (as I do) but it is something worth exploring. The relationship between God and many components of society today is a unique one in that we don't really know what exactly either role is in the other. And there is no real way that we'll ever know. All of us, in some way or form as accepted the idea that nothing really is for certain but we try to make sense of it all. If we allowed everything to be called into question, everything to be criticized, to rely on nothing as a solid foundation, to believe in nothing concrete then the world as we know it would be chaos. It is these unifying ideas and beliefs in religion, God, science, truth, that make us the way that we are and allow us to go about our daily lives with a relative self-peace. We believe that the sun will rise in the morning, set in the evening, that there is a night, that there is a dark, that we have to pay our taxes, we have to go to school, we have to listen to our parents- without these social structures we are at a loss. The reason people look for answers, via God or science, is because we want stablity.