Dr. Einstein was a clever fellow, no doubt... ;>)... but prescient?

and I'm sorry, John,,,but science and religion are not " opposite sides of the same coin"...that metaphor simply doesn't track. Science & religion do, indeed, have different approaches to certain issues, but there is no 'coin' that serves as a ground of both conceptual frameworks.

I think you made YOUR point when you refer to "the mystically inclined". That is, basically, what we have. Some folks seem to emotionally need that approach, and will adopt its attitudes whether or not it fits the data. No one (at least not me) is claiming that they can DISprove mystical answers of certain kinds, but neither can the religiously inclined disprove scientific research just because it doesn't seem to fit some pre-digested view of reality they learned in church!

Science, when done right, adapts and changes its thinking as new information is discovered. Much religion wants to refuse to think anything that wasn't printed in some ancient text....and interpreted by leaders who have vested interests in the interpretation.