Faith founded in reality is not in conflict with intelligent science, it is in a different realm. Currently we have people believing that a baby is not human until 28 days after birth. The Bible teaches a human is such at conception and agrees with intelligent genetic science. We have people peddling a science that a child can choose their gender and an industry believing that. The Bible states there is only two genders, and they are determined at conception.

Whose science do we establish a society upon? Without a moral compass anything is considered science.

Dear David F.,

«There are only worldly things.»

That is a definition, yes.

"Things", be they shoe-laces or deities, are necessarily worldly.

The world of things is governed by the laws of nature - some already discovered by natural-science, some yet to be discovered and others that may never be discovered (for lack of evidence, for being too expensive to explore or for lack of time before humanity is extinguished).

Everyone wants to he happy.

When one believes (itself a superstition) that their happiness depends on the state of the things of the world, then they naturally tend to study and manipulate the things of the world towards whatever they believe is going to bring them that happiness.

Religion teaches that this is not true.
Religion teaches that everlasting happiness comes only from union with God (which is not a thing).

A con man is not religious: a con man shares that superstition (that happiness comes from the world of things) with his/her conned people, believing that worldly following (power) and/or money and/or sex is the one thing, of all things of the world, that will maximise their happiness!

Beware of people who claim to be religious, yet attempt to teach about the world of things: had they been true people of Faith and God, then why would they bother about things and waste their time teaching about the world?

«Those who accept superstition believe that those who do not are somewhat less moral.»

Religion teaches that we are not born moral, that becoming moral is a struggle, that no matter what we believe, morality is still a faraway goal and success can only come once and to the extent we no longer desire things, for otherwise we would even be violating morality in our desperate need to obtain/retain things. Only the complete breaking of that superstition as if things can give us happiness can give us a chance to find God and be happy.