When people claim religion is harmless.

[Brian37]

Uh, what?

Think it through. It's not difficult. Different groups of people competed with each other. From an evolutionary perspective, they didn't begin with religion. Religion came in at some point. If religion were deleterious to the survival of the group, it would have been eradicated. But, it fixed in practically all groups. That indicates that it's advantageous.

Religion is not the cause of our evolutionary curiosity evolution is. Humans made bad guesses back then WORLDWIDE and every religion WORLDWIDE, just as far too many WORLDWIDE still do today, what you are doing still, is falsely assuming because a contribution was made, that makes the club, or holy book true. EVERY religion has followers and apologists who fall for this trap.

Scientific method, is a tool, it is not a religion. Humans worldwide made discoveries even back then, and that evolutionary curiosity built up over time. But that STILL does not point to one club or one holy book. 

There are far older societies in our species history than Muslims, Jews or Christians. Mastering fire, making cloths, and building shelter EXISTED even prior to the first written religions. 

Ask a Buddhist if science matches their religion, many will say yes.
Ask a Muslim if science matches their religion, many will say yes.
Ask a Jew if science matches their religion, many will say yes.
Ask a Hindu if science matches their religion, many will say yes.

Religious people certainly can learn and accept science. But I'd argue it isn't your religion doing that, it is your genes, your evolutionary drive to want to figure things out.

A Christian mapping out the human Gene does not prove the God of the bible the one true god, anymore than a Muslim arguing their contribution of algebra proves the existence of Allah. Just like both would agree that pointing to the Ancient Greeks inventing the word "atom" did not mean they knew what a proton, electron or neutron were.

Scientific method is COMPLETELY religion independent regardless of the personal beliefs of an individual scientist who has a religion. 

There is no Jesus law of gravity.
There is no Allah law of thermodynamics.
There is no Buddhist atom smasher.
There is no Jewish cosmic microwave background radiation.
There is no Hindu quantum physics.

There is only scientific method.