Science and Religion don't reside in different realms. They both must look at reality and asses the evidence. It is about epistemology. Science starts by removing biases to reach objective truth, while religion often imposes bias as the fundamental belief that must be adhered to before considering the evidence. The default position when you don't have the evidence, is to create conspiracy narratives or moral assignment to those who disagree with you. "They believe X (not because of their overwhelming evidence) because they are of the devil."