Another point of contact between these two concerns the future. Science is generally silent on this, regarding the data as insufficient. Science studies the material world. The methods of science are experiments, data, theories, and inferential logic. Religion uses prayer, sacraments, worship and spiritual disciplines.
Religion is defined by doctrines.
Science assumes understanding by rational means. Such comparison may help, but it leaves open the question of whether the relationship between these two is as clear as we might like it to be. To clarify their authority to make claims about truth, Christians appeal to scripture, revelation and church traditions, while science appeals to experience, reason and scientific traditions. Science is ambivalent about the place of humans. We are unique in having a symbolic language, and are developed in consciousness and in our abilities to plan and change our environment.