I'm sorry to say I'm completely bored with the perennial rehashing of attempts to reconcile science with spirituality. They're two different realms, people! Do we try to explain apples in terms of oranges? Do we try to explain dishwashers in terms of childbirth? Do we say Marvel Comics is a not very good imitation of Shakespeare? (Well, maybe some of us do.)

Humans are perfectly capable of thinking about more than one kind of thing at a time. Not everything needs to be put in a blender and mushed together.

> Do we say Marvel Comics is a not very good imitation of Shakespeare? (Well, maybe some of us do.)

I was gonna say ... :)

> Not everything needs to be put in a blender and mushed together.

More than mushing together, I'd argue there's a (valid?) search for some "ultimate" explanation, which would conjoin, or at least cohere with - the two.-

"The dialogue between science and religion is among humanity’s oldest and most controversial, drawing each era’s greatest thinkers into some of history’s most heated debates. We’ve previously looked at a BBC documentary on the complex relationship between the two and 7 essential books on the psychology of faith. Today, we turn to a fantastic mashup of 50 famous academics — including Brain Pickings favorites Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Oliver Sacks, Steven Pinker and Daniel Dennett — talking about spirituality and science, created by Jonathan Pararajasingham.

  I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large, because they seem to be too simple, to connected, too local, too provincial. The Earth! He came to the Earth! One of the aspects of God came to the Earth, mind you. And look at what’s out there! How can… It isn’t in proportion.” ~ Richard Feynman"