Science's Restraining Order

Science and religion will always clash as they are conflicting philosophies, at least if one takes religion seriously enough. When I think of this argument it reminds me of Santa Claus. On one end you have the advocates that say there is a slightly obese man with hundreds of elvish slaves who makes toys and delivers them to every child in the world on a single night. On the other side you have the people who say "Grow up, your parents put the toys under the tree." Guess which side is religion. While the Santa Claus myth is fine for a little child who needs something magical and fun to believe in, a 36 year old man who believes in Santa is just creepy. The same goes for religion. Using God and all his powers was well and good for early humanity to answer the difficult questions like why is the sky blue or why does it thunder, but we have progressed as a people to an advancement in thought and technology to where we can discover why the sky is REALLY blue. In essence, we are now mature enough to understand that our parents put the presents under the tree. But a conflict remains as there are still the full grown adults who believe in Santa spreading their opinion. This is the conflict we find ourselves in today. Religion thought to explain the entire world and every aspect of it a long time ago and is now being proven wrong at every turn. This makes it defensive and conflict oriented when dealing with science. Because if the Bible is wrong about the Earth being the center of the universe, perhaps it is wrong about this God character. There have been attempts made to tie science and religion together and I believe this is perfectly feesible, as long as either side is open minded. This is the dilemma Galileo presented and why he was placed under house arrest (and why he founded the Illumnati, but that is a different story), because religion was afraid and still is to this day. It took the Catholic church until the 1990's to admit the earth is not the center of the universe. Overall, it is the conflict of understanding based on human development and the loverly defensive nature of religion that brings this conflict about and I fear it will remain unsolved until one of the subjects is done away with.

Note: I do not mean to offend any religious advocates with this post, I merely state the nature of conflict in my humble opinion