Religion vs Science.

I don't think science is a way of knowing. Knowing implies complete knowledge or understanding. Science is a by its very nature of theory and proofs simply a means by which we attempt to achieve knowing. But, because of science's premise that all theories remain open to further inquiry and testing, it can never be the case where complete knowledge is attained even in terms of a specific proof. If it were such a case, I doubt anyone would have challenged Newtonian physics. Science is instead a method of understanding, that has a byproduct of incomplete knowledge.

Religion, on the other hand is a way of knowing. Because religion postulates certain ideas that are accepted by believers as unchangeable facts. In cases where the religious facts seem to be countered by physical reality, religion is open to interpretation in such a way that the basic religious fact is upheld. For example the issue of when and how the universe was made has been accepted by religious people as being simply due to God. No matter how advanced science has become in postulating and providing plausible evidence as to how and when the universe started, a religious person can still conclude that God was the ultimate agent. 

A religious person can declare that the universe was created by God with an authority based on religious knowledge. A person who looks to science for the same declarative knowledge will come up short. Science cannot provide final proof which validates the idea of final knowledge. It isn't a means of "knowing". On the other hand, religion is not a means of "understanding" physical reality. By which I mean, religion can provide the certitude that God created the universe, but it provides little insight as to the methodology or functionality which was part of that process. A religious person may "know" that God created the universe, but aside from literary descriptions describing the creation process, he would be hard pressed to provide specific proof of either process or methodology.

Religion would be a way of "knowing" without necessarily "understanding" Science is a way of "understanding" without necessarily "knowing".