Is reconcilement between science and religion possible?

After a fierce debate about religion with greenapple, we ended with a consensus that science and religion will coexist in future for a long time. As greenapple said, neither of them can provide us a comprehensive understanding about everything around us so human need both of them. This is a typical debate about the validity of religion between atheism and Islam. Actually this kind of debates lasted for centuries and became much hot recently.

In one hand, some religions begin to employ so-called science miracles in holy scriptures to justify their validity. For example, there are many arguments about science miracles in Quran which claimed that Muhammad got revelations about the origin of the universe, the creation of the earth, development of embryo and so on. Also a variety of creationism such as intelligent design were developed to justify God in a more scientific way. On the other hand, it is noticeable that such justifications have around the same number of critics as supporters. Because they are still open to debate, we can't tell which side is more justifiable.

If we can go a little further to explore the essence of religion, problem could be simplified. German philosopher Feuerbach said that, if God can't be proved as a material existence, then it is a spiritual existence which must derive from human's mental activity. It can't be independent so it is a outward projection of human's inner characteristics. Psychologist Fred said that religion is the realization of human's intense and urgent wish. Human will confront a lot of sufferings such illness, frustration, and death in life, so he gets an intense desire to get free from these sufferings by simply relying on a kind and mighty deity. It is a great comfort to offset those sufferings in real world. So, if God is just a mental phenomenon of human, it is subjective and can't be justified and not to mention it can direct the progress of science.

However, despite its subjective trait, religion definitely can improve comfort, sense of safety, peace. So it embodies a kind of humanistic characteristic. The rational power of science and humanistic influence of religion will be complementary rather than competitive.