Science and Religon

From what I've absorbed from listening in class and interpreted from reading, if one was to take the same stand as Mr.McDonough or Braungart it would be probable to assume that Religion is used as a fail safe or back drop plan for any aspects of science or the "real" world we or society don’t understand. Like in ancient Rome environmental anomalies such as lighting and typhoons weren’t interpreted as charged electrical particles in the air or hot and cold air currents violently coming together they were instead thought to be the anger and disapproval of "Zeus" or "Poseidon".So in essence religion is basically depicted as the explanation to a particular era's un-explainable "science".Like in the case of the Mayans and Aztecs who once believed that the sun would not rise if a daily sacrifice wasn’t offered to the sun god Kinich Ahau. But as we all know the sun rises just fine, and will continue to have the world and the other Eight planets of our solar system rotating around it without one of us sacrificing or first born sons or virgin daughters.But Religion and science are two co-evolving bodies, because as one person said in class he believes parts of both the "Big Bang" theory and the scriptures that suggest "intelligent design", which is almost a perfect example of what im getting at which is as time progresses so does are understanding and grasp of the universe around us, and as that knowledge grows for the most part many peoples needs for a belief system or Devine explanation of the workings of the world shrinks or disappears because scince explains how that or many paticular things "really".
Now due to my own religious beliefs I am bias on this subject because regardless of what I read or hear from a book or in class or write in this or future blogs I'm still going to believe that the world was created from intelligent design and that, that particular intellectual is God as I know him. But that doesn’t change the fact that as society progress and transforms its grasp on knowledge religion as a whole transforms its self adapting and forming to explain the not yet explainable and will stay a crucial corner stone and building block to the evolution of human existence and our sciences wether it be the fail safe or the irrational concepts that push the sciences forward