By far the most attacked person around here in this thread is me! You are the one doing the conflating here, conflating attacks on religion and attacks on Joe Offer. Reading your sentence again, I'm not at all sure that you're not muddling the word with something else, actually. What you're doing is what I'm not doing, as a matter of fact.
You are equating science and religion as somehow being academic-style disciplines with respectably-equivalent but different methodologies. Well I think you're being way too nice about religion. Science is the process that delivers all human knowledge. Religion is a take-it or leave-it (or force-it) instrument of control. No equivalence whatsoever. As for magic powers being "one way to see it", well tell me another way of seeing feeding five thousand on a few scraps, walking on water, raising the dead, turning water into wine, predicting exactly what would happen when a cock crows and coming back to life having been bled dry two days earlier.