I'm not exposed to "defenders of science", perhaps because I avoid political discussions, idk. I don't see any conflict with a scientific view + other views. Certainly thinking about quantum-scale physics leads down this path anyway.

Science is the domain of the known, tested, or hypothesized. Beyond that we have the 'negative spaces' that are these other domains. The boundaries between them shift and move with understanding. There will always be negative space as we can't have all the answers to all questions in any system. These are complementary and shouldn't be at odds with each other.

Where is this conflicting overlap that needs defense? Seems like semantics to me saying that some 'knowledge' isn't science, ok.