Re: Science vs. Religion - The famous Tower of Babel (19,000 ft high, and 8 miles round); "an enormous tower built at the city of Babylon, a cosmopolitan city typified by a confusion of languages,[2] also called the "beginning" of Nimrod's kingdom. According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, participated in the building. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens."...."Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:4). The Book of Genesis then relates how God, displeased with the builders' intent, came down and confused their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth."

The great Tower of Babel is believed by many historians to have been an a symbol for the consolidation of science and religion. It's been said that it was God himself who burned it to the ground, angry at the townspeople, but most historians believe the gargantuan structure was destroyed by townspeople who didn't believe in a unification of science and religion. I have a feeling that a similar fate would befall any modern attempts at such a landmark today..