#basic instructions

I need to know more about how other people make tea. I thought we all made tea in more-or-less the same way: get water hot (kettle, microwave, fancy extra sink faucet, etc,) put hot water in vessel if necessary, add tea (loose leaf, bagged,) wait some amount of time, separate tea leaves from liquid tea. Now we have tea.

Religion is a tool for giving meaning to the world we live in. Science is a tool for understanding it. There's no reason the two should be in conflict. Except when people lose track of what they're for and try to make them overlap. People who use God to explain where we come from and where we're going and people who use the scientific method to decide who and what is worthwhile are both at fault in this.