[Stone Mountain]

The idea that somehow science and religion are at odds is absurd.

This is true. However, the idea that science is at odds with a literal reading of the bible is clearly not absurd.

[Sopater]

the idea that science is at odds with a literal reading of the bible is clearly not absurd.

This too is true. However the idea that there is a significant number of fundamentalist Christians who actually believe that everything in the Bible is to be taken literally is just as absurd. ;-)