<HTML>In that case it depends on what kind of religion you're talking about and the attitude you take towards it.
Some would still insist on a literal reading of Genesis, in which case a genuine conflict with science occurs.
Others try to avoid such conflict by keeping science and religion to strictly separate domains - in which case, religion has to do with making people feel better about dying, providing suitable rituals for crucial events in life, providing moral guidance etc. - things which science doesn't provide.
It's arguable that the kind of mythological thinking found in creation stories isn't different in type to framing hypotheses in science. What's different in science is the process of testing hypotheses.</HTML>
