Students say the script was written to show creationists as the bad guys and Darrow as a hero. No way are we close to getting a theory to the origin of life. Barbour sees both similarities and differences between the two ways of knowing or forming beliefs, but more similarities than people often think. Science begins with observation of the data, religion with religious experiences and sacred stories. Both use imagination to build models and draw analogies.
Science has theories, religion has beliefs.
What Barbour adds is that scientists' theories influence their observation of data. I'm a scientist. When you come up with conflicting data you don't throw away your theory. No matter how much discrepant data they find, scientists do not abandon a theory until they have a new theory to replace it with. That's the way science is, Monsma says.