Religion vs Science?

To be honest, I was reading on autopilot for most of the chapters and sadly didn't look into as many of his points as I should have. I happened to finish our reading yesterday so I wouldn't have to read anything tonight. Yet, from our class discussion and fear of failing another reading quiz, I realized the value of looking deeper into this book and decided to reread the last two chapters. In the previous few chapters, Adams seems to be pinning the new world's point of view through science versus the old one, mostly seen as the Church. Yesterday, I first thought him to stating that to be religious was in a way to be ignorant. As if, there was no use for religion in this new century for it was outdated and one must look for new education in the world of science. Though, some may view religion as a way of ignorance that is not Adams' point.
On page 359 he writes "Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as God". He reminds me of my mom who when she was in her early teens went to church because it was what you did if you lived in Hollywood, SC and came from the Green family. Yet when she began to question God and her parents, they had no idea how to answer. They just said Church was important because that's what they were told to do and she just had to do it. She soon rebelled and refused to go to church all together since they couldn't give her a legitimate reason to go, also because the church was basically the town's Moulin Rouge. Later, she discovered the Church again but because of how she felt it was important to her and for her own reasons not "just because".
I feel this is Adams' point. He is not bashing religion, the belief in science, or evolution but stating that the mistake is to hold those things high without knowing what is holding it up. No man or woman can make a mistake if he or she knows the value and the reason behind their support or belief in something. He, in a way, implies not all men will have the same education because all will have different life experiences as well as different values and reasons for the way they live their lives.