"Religion and science are not mutually exclusive."

I have a strong feeling that they might be. You see religious people advance the hypothesis: 'there is a God' and a scientist is entitled to ask them to prove the hypothesis (probably not a wise thing to do - but there you go!). The scientist cannot prove that there is no God because you can't prove a negative (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence). Hence a true scientist, who must follow the laws of logic, can only be an agnostic - not an atheist. Note that, in a scientific context, the burden of proof lies with the religious person (it is he/she who has advanced, and who 'owns', the God hypothesis).

On the other hand religious people tend to assert that they don't need 'proof' of the existence of God because they have 'faith' in His existence. To my mind this assertion of faith negates any possibility of dialogue between the religious person and the scientist.