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I grew up in a fairly conservative Christian home and was taught that God gives humans the intelligence to use science. There was no big disconnect between science and Christianity. This was the 1980s though...
Things like religion give frameworks on how to live and guide moral choices, science is a tool for living. Science won't tell you if the death penalty is right or wrong, if there should be limits to what people can say, etc. Religion won't tell you how old the earth is, why people get sick, etc.
But it does though... All religions pass descriptive statements about the world like "earth sits atop the backs of elephants which stand on the back of a huge turtle" and so on.
Sure, religions do pass normative statements (i.e., statements about what you ought to do), but they try to objectify those too.