"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."--Albert Einstein
The truth in these words lies in the question, "What is the ultimate long-term purpose of science?"
While science does do many things to improve mankind's condition in daily life, to what end does that serve? Why make our lives easier? What is the direction of science, if there is no God or "grand design" to the universe (or universes if there are more we haven't discovered)? Why not just spend our days hunting wildlife or planting crops until we simply fade from being? This is why science without religion is a lame thing. Take away religion, and science loses motivation. Science is not an "ars gratia artis", and making it so removes its legs.
Ultimately, the quest for God, or "superior intelligence" if you find the idea of God too antiquated, is what drives mankind onward.
On the other hand, religion without science is what makes the idea of God antiquated. in that situation, religion becomes nothing more than a children's bedtime story, with a moral or a boogeyman to scare children into compliance for whatever reason a parent may have. Blind faith is for the silly masses. If science cannot show you God, then you simply are not looking at it.
Peter O'Toole said it best in the movie Creator:
"...one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes, and the first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles."
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