This could be posted in either Complaints or Politics, as it fits in either, but I am going to put it here because IMHO I feel it fits better here. Make of that what you will.

I just wanted to share with you some rather interesting quotes I got from an article on a newspaper website I read. It featured radical ideas from a range of people, including scients, futurists and creative thinkers. I wanted to pick out the two vasting different quotes by two people in the subjet of science vs religion.

" Science must destroy religion

Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticising ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. It has also obliged us to lie to ourselves about the compatibility between religious faith and scientific rationality.

In the spirit of religious tolerance, most scientists keep silent when they should be blasting the hideous fantasies of a prior age with all the facts at their disposal.

Sam Harris, University of California, Los Angeles ".

Science encourages religion in the long run (and vice versa)

Ever since Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, scientists and secularly-minded scholars have been predicting the ultimate demise of religion.

But, if anything, religious fervour is increasing across the world. An underlying reason is that science treats humans and intentions only as incidental elements in the universe, whereas for religion they are central.

Science is not well-suited to deal with people's existential anxieties, including death, deception, loneliness or longing for love or justice. It cannot tell us what we ought to do, only what we can do.
Religion thrives because it addresses people's deepest emotional yearnings.

Scott Atran, Anthropologist, University of Michigan "

What I take from this, as I have understood for a long time now, is that science is very cold and lacking in feeling and emotion. It tries to explain how everything works, and tries to reduce our most innermost feelings and desires to simple brain activity and chemical reactions.
It basically is the thinking of a robot.

Humans are an emotional species, and religion fulfills our need for emotional comfort and dependance, like what the quote directly above mentions. It is an intergral part of our being, and to destroy it is to destroy a part of ourselves emotionally.