The arguments here are interesting and "spirited", pun intended.  

Yet no "winner" can be declared as both sides rely on "faith" in proving their views.  Yes, science requires reproducible and measurable results.  And science is an ever-changing body of physical facts and theories, while religion is more evolved (pun intended and relates to the fact that religion's practices and principles are mature, having withstood hundreds of years) than it is evolving.

That faith is a basic tenant of religion is unquestionable.  That faith as it applies to science is difficult for some to acknowledge.  There are sub-atomic particles we can not see directly but are measured indirectly.  There is a desire for a unifying definition of the physical workings of the universe, which continues to elude the human mind.   And there is the mind blowing concepts of an infinite universe and the creation of said universe from nothingness or from something that was proscribed by nothingness.  How insignificant one is in the face of the infinite and nothingness - and I'm not talking from a religious point of view.

Yes, one can say that science cannot yet resolve these issues until more powerful technologies exist.  I still doubt we will figure out how the universe was created or from what it came from, or how big is infinite or what surrounds the infinite.  These questions are dealt with via "faith", and I'm not talking Christian, Judaic, Muslim or any other divinity-based world religions.   I'm talking the religion of science and the assumption of certain theories on faith until otherwise proven or replaced by further faith-based theories. 

I've never seen an  electron or a muon but I've seen evidence of their existence reflected in experimental results.  The same can be said of God - everything in the universe is a reflection of God though maybe not a piece of God. 

Without taking one side or the other for this argument, why does one side have to be the "right" side?  Why can't both share in being a part of the whole picture?  Absolutism about one's position creates potential for intolerance and missappropriation of each side's values.  Fanaticism and extreme behaviours are only a couple of rationalizations away.

To further illuminate this position, some quotes by Albert Einstein from http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/reflections_volume_1/torrance.htm:

1)  Count Kessler once said to him, "Professor! I hear that you are deeply religious." Calmly and with great dignity, Einstein replied, "Yes, you can call it that. Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious."

2)  Einstein held that the main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lay in "the concept of a personal God" for that was to think of God in an anthropomorphic way, and to project into him figurative images and human psychological notions of personality, which give rise, he held, to religious practices of worship and notions of providence shaped in accordance with human selfish desires. That did not mean that Einstein thought of God merely in some impersonal way, for, as we have noted, he thought of relation to God in a sublime superpersonal way which he confessed he was unable to grasp or express and before which he stood in unbounded awe and wonder.

3)  "Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the actions of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a supernatural Being. However, it must be admitted that our actual knowledge of these laws is only imperfect and fragmentary, so that, actually the belief in the existence of basic all-embracing laws in nature also rests on a sort of faith. All the same this faith has been largely justified so far by the success of scientific research. But, on the other hand, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive."

4)  "And God said, Let there by light: and there was light." God is himself eternal uncreated Light, but he created the universe in such a way that it is governed by created light. We cannot see light, but see only what is lit up by light. 

If you haven't seen any evidence documenting the numbers, how do you know its a scary number?? You are letting your imagination get