Science tells us both how and why things work. There's no need for religion in that. How and why are really the same thing anyway, unless you mean "why" as some sort of greater purpose. Science can and should inform how we see the world. I think we do need some sort of philosophy to decide how we act on that information, but it doesn't have to be in the form of religion.
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Science doesn't tell us why on the most important levels of understanding. There are limitations and parameters.
Religion is any interpretation of man's understanding of God. Science can't answer basic questions for us. Why we are here? It can tell us how we got here, but can't speak to purpose without a cold view of humanity. When a society is too devoted to either science or religion it will fail in this modern era. A balance of understanding is key to our mutual evolution.
Science will never have all answers to all our questions. But it does not mean that because science can't respond everything, that it is valid to speculate and take those speculations as absolute truth without any basis for that. |Many "explanations" of the past we now know to be false.