It really is not necessary. God has given us a wonderful ability to live with ambiguity. Those are both very important, and I happen to think that being created in the image of God is a truth that has far more meaning and value for me as a person. It empowers my life much more. Science shouldn't be dealing in religion.
Science makes a very poor religion, but religion does science very poorly.
We can live with that ambiguity, that paradox. That's part of what it means to be human, and it's one of the great gifts God has given us. Now, having just attempted to make a case about how religion and science always conflict, let me try to make the case that that might not always be true. There have been some significant advances in science and some different ways to think about God that hold the promise of ironing out some of these differences. Since the time of Isaac Newton, science has assumed that the universe is a vast and complex machine programmed to operate by certain unchanging and unchangeable laws.