Religion is a spiritual believe ordained by The Almighty or self created by the Humans. While science is a man made research that deals with fact and hypotheses. Science and Religion are kind of interrelated but has their big differences too, and the history and research can be traced back to seventh century. Science deals or is related with fact obvious while Religion has to do with spiritual realm and believes.
Can Science and Religion work together? Supernatural entities can not be emphasis on what is natural, which makes not to agree with each other, they explained aspect of human understanding of human behavior in different ways.
What makes them both be related? So many times, science has deeprooted in the religion so as to get some fact about supernatural that could help in research, hence makes the research and hypotheses easy and achieveable.
But on so many times, science and religion conflict not because they find it hard to agree but because their believe and actions are different. This makes most of the scientists not so much belief in religion and God, they believe they have the ability to change the way human think and react, they can create without the help of another force.
So many times just like where humanity works, religion can fail, and where religion works humanity can fail. Same goes to religion and science, they may have their differences and similarities, but where one works, the other might fail. In the area of life and how life works, the religion has best explained it clearer than the human research called science.
Science since inception has been making research and taking up practicals of how man evoluted, but it's beyond their knowledge because it's not natural but supernatural. The way living things breath, how the heart works, how we move, how blood flows, how we sleep and wake up, how we speak, the blinking of eyes, etc is just beyond comprehension, which can or may not be done by science even if they try in 1000years, this is where religion supercede science. Science till today can't figure out how the two Rivers in the gulf Atlantic (the salty and normal taste) do not mix, the warm and cold water do not mix, what happens in the after life which makes science believe no after life, discovering of the seventh heavens which is beyond natural and comprehension.
However, science has made life better for the mankind, maybe without science, the life would still be like the old times where everything would still be done through manual. Hence science has brought a lot of things to make life better, is it the everyday research to take life to the next level, the engineers to make life beautiful, creating so many things for the betterment of mankind in the likes of mechanical engineers, civil engineers, electronic engineers etc. The doctors to watch our health which has greatly helped in our communities in the likes of medical doctors that treats health, orthopedic doctors that deals with bones, neurologist who deals with the brain, psychiatrist doctors who specializes in how brain works etc, to mention a few.
Science and Religion can actually work together but their foundation believe is what still makes them thread differently. Religion depends heavily on science while science thrive always to stand alone. Hence both needs to work together to make things work more for the betterment of Mankind.
You have chosen a very good topic. I think our religion has revealed a lot of things that science is doing. Because we already have faith and belief in religion, we easily believe in it. Science convinces us by experimenting.