religion insists it has all the answers when in fact it knows less than science.If we simply substituted god for all the things we don't or didn't know, we'd still believe that we were the center of the universe. Religion is a belief and science is a process, so while religion is stagnant and unchanging, science is viral and in constant flux, growing and altering itself with the understanding of it's practitioners.

Who needs symbols that are at best a pale and inaccurate and largely uninformed reflection of reality, when you can have empirical evidence.

God as it were is ever shrinking, existing in the ever smaller margins where science has yet to explore, and question it's relevance.