excerpt from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_and_science

The relationship between religion and science has been a focus of the Demarcation problem.
Statements about the world made by science and religion rely on different methodologies.

Religions rely on revelation while science relies on observable, repeatable experiences.
Some scholars say the two are separate, as in John William Draper's conflict thesis and Stephen Jay Gould's non-overlapping magisteria, while others (Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Ken Wilber, et al.) propose an interconnection. The Pew Forum has published data on attitudes to religion and science.[1]