You may want to read "The Lost Art of Scripture" by Karen Anderson. It's an excellent book that talks about the overemphasis that humanity has taken in recent centuries for the left hemisphere and it's addiction to fact, right/wrong, analysis, science - making religion and scripture into something it was never intended to be. What has been lacking is the right hempisphere - the home of abstract ideas, creativity, and empathy. It's the side of the brain that encourages us to get past our ego and actually care about other people. Anderson argues that all Scripture serves a few purpose and have the same themes, regardless of what religion or region it originates from - encountering the divine within, transformation, and empathy. The modern "debate" between science and religion is really just fundamentalist atheists who adhere to scientism as their creed vs. fundamentalist relgionists who think they are being more scientific. There's plenty of room of science and religion to co-exist because they are not the same and don't have the same focus, nor should they.