Science and Religion Disagree

American culture currently has a fascination in reported sightings of mysterious lights and objects in the night sky. Who is to say whether UFOs exist? Some believe they have seen evidence that extraterrestrial life is visiting earth with their own eyes, while scientists try to disprove this evidence as ridiculously false, such as swamp gases or weather balloons. I have heard some argue that alien life is impossible and other planets do not contain intelligent …

…marvels. How many more cases similar to this debate will it take before science and religion can agree? Or more importantly, when will religion allow science to decide its own actions and not be so critical of the work done in labs and in the formulation of new ideas? I conclude that there might never be common ground between faith and fact, and as long as there is not, both sides will suffer for it.