Dialectics: Religion vs. Science

I'm not sure how exactly this prompt is supposed to work but here goes....

I was brought up as a Catholic. However, my parents have been pretty hands-off in terms of letting me make my own decisions about my beliefs. Recent events have caused me to review my stance on religion. Something that my busy life has not allowed much time for. For example, during the past couple weeks, some of my friends who are very religious have abstained from eating meat on Fridays. Also, today, I sponsored my younger brother in his confirmation. While the bishop asked him and his peers about their faith, I began to try and formulate what I believe. I took what I believed to be the two opposite ends of the spectrum and compared.

Science, has uncovered many things to us about the universe and dismantled many popular beliefs in the process, evolution being the most obvious one. I see myself as a pretty rational person and scientific facts tend to have more weight for me than ancient scriptures written by man. But still, there are many things that science has yet to explain such as the origin of the universe, the meaning of life, how to live, etc. For these things, I turn to Catholicism. This is what I like about religion. It brings us together as a community and provides us with guidlines on how to live. Different religions have different guidlines and you can pick and chose which to follow. Me, I still eat meat on Fridays.

So, after this dialectic (I hope I did it right), I think a compromise between science and religion depending on the individual is the way to go on this issue.