(I find it interesting that placebo pills work at the same rate whether you're aware it's fake or not.)

Religions are so much more than that though; they come with lots of extra baggage I don't want.
I stick to meditation and creative visualization.

again and again by science, lead to conflicts. Today, it is difficult to read things like the creation myths and not say, "Wait...what?"

Some attempt to gloss over those errors, referring to "metaphors" or whatever. Yet, the same people will introduce writings that attempt to align such myths with demonstrated reality. That leads to some almost comical stretches of credulity.

Humans are creative beings, capable of imagining almost anything. Before science existed, imaginary explanations of many things were created by humans. We are also capable of fooling ourselves into thinking our imaginary explanations are somehow correct. An entire industry has developed to try to do that, and it is still trying to reconcile mythology with reality. Unsuccessfully, of course, but still able to convince many, who do not have basic scientific knowledge, that what they say is true.

Learning and understanding what science has come to understand can be quite difficult, really. That difficulty leads many to simply latch on to the earlier, simpler, mythological explanations. Various hybrid explanations have resulted from this, so we have museum exhibits that show humans walking alongside dinosaurs. And some people believe those exhibits, because, you know, they have seen them.

what about the Y and X chromosomes and the whole rib thing?

science and religion have co-existed from the earliest days of human activity. For instance, one archaeologist stated that in the time frame of 1 million years ago there is some evidence of the controlled use of fire while by the time of 500 thousand years ago the controlled use of fire was a universal achievement for humans. The people who used fire to smelt bronze or brass, or iron or used the kiln in making pottery or producing glass were using science no matter how backward we see their religious concepts. I think that from the beginning religion was developed from superstition but science has always existed in reality and the same distinction applies today.

Perhaps the op should define what he meant, but I think science means something like “the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”.