For some people, Paul, religion is a process of searching. An investigation. It's not a question of DECIDING at the beginning: "this religion is TRUE, 100% true, everything in it, and that's my whole base of belief from now on." It's a question of trying something that "seems to work a bit at the moment"...just as you describe in the scientific method, and seeing where it takes you as you go along.

Same basic process as science, only it's inwardly directed.

As I said: There is no reason whatsoever to draw battle lines between religion (man's inner search for meaning) and science (man's outer search for observable knowledge).

Each should complement and strengthen the best in the other.