The writer says "Science, after all, teaches us about the nature of life, about what we are and how we came to be, while religion teaches us about the nature of living, about who we are and how we ought to behave. And we need both. In their rightful places." ... well,  we certainly need science and the scientific method to learn about the reality of the world but I utterly fail to see why we need religion and all the baggage of churches and rituals and 2000 year old texts to teach us how to behave. We have our (material) brains and language and we can work that stuff out for ourselves ... which is exactly what we do. Remember too that more often than not, religion tells us how to behave rather and imposes rules on society. Religion gave us the Inquisition and ISIS and witch burning. 

There is a need for science there is no need whatsoever for religion.