but it doesn't follow that, generally speaking, it is incompatable either. Certainly, a fundamentalist isn't going to do very well in the biology department, or astrophysics, but would probably have few problems in material sciences. A person who is not fundamentalist could fit in anywhere. It is back to this true/false mindset I was talking about. If you think both science and religion are competitors for truth then you will have problems. But if not, if religion is, as Joe put it, more about values than truth, there need be no more a conflict between science and religion than there is between science and being a vegan. There can be conflicts over the values of course, but you can have that in just about any other system of morals - animal rights clashes, for example, or whether NICE mechanisms to authorise a drug for treatment use adequate models.