Does religion just focus on answering different questions than science?

You've heard it before: There's no incompatibility between religion and science. They just seek to answer different questions. Science asks how; religion asks why.

Wrong.

First, both religion and science seek to describe the nature of reality. Because of this they must overlap and compete in the arena of explanations for what is.

Second, religion does not answer any questions, in any arena, with answers that can be verified, at least not when it proposes supernatural answers. It can only speculate. To say that God created everything is not an answer with any meaning, since this assertion cannot be verified. Scientific hypotheses, on the other hand, can be, and are, tested. They can either be confirmed as valid explanations of reality or disconfirmed.

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