Religion and Science need not be fighting with one another. They ask different questions. Science asks how was it made: Religion asks why was it made? When the religious perspective attempts to comment on the "hows/the process of creation," it really does violence to the texts, and is akin to philosophy commenting on the scientific aspects astro-biology. Or the biological community becoming upset with physicists making biological constructs. (Roger Penrose, Hawkings equal in Oxford, got into a spot of trouble in exactly this way as a result of his book: "The Large, The Small, and the Human Mind")
Poaching in other's back yard happens in all disciplines. Biblical texts were never intended to convey How God created, the process by which he did it--the stuff of empirical observation, but drives forward asking why He would do such a thing.
For humans it is natural to desire that their world view can explain all things, but is that a realistic pursuit? Its when science leaves science to play with faith that it gets itself into trouble, just as religion does by accepting that its pursuit is about the tangibles, the empirical evidences of God. That isn't to say one field cannot inform the other, so long as each has a proper understanding and appreciation of their own limits.
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