Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
It is, of course, quite true that there is a region in which science and religion do not conflict. That is the region of the unknowable.
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him a ride. Prejudices: Third Series (1917)
Their [the theologians'] earliest forerunners... were aware of no difference between magic and religion, but practiced both with easy consciences.