While many in main stream science claim to be atheist and believe in the Big Bang and the eventual Deep Freeze due to entropy. Is it not curious to consider that the very underpinnings of this belief is based on mathematics, was it too created in the big bang? if so how was it constructed? one digit at a time?
I think not it has always been there and will always remain its an eternal masterpiece that permeates every conceivable facet or reality yet in its self it is purely abstract. Without it nothing would exist, but it in itself it is nonexistent and existent at the same time. It is the language of the living universe. Its permutations are infinite, yet it did not grow, it has always been complete and eternal.
Religion could be interpreted as a way to believe and worship a God or a set of Gods. But it could be interpreted as a belief that is very important to a person. So yes you could definitely say that science is a religion. But you wouldn't actually write it down to your forms. I also see replies that yes it is an opposite of religion where science deals with facts where as religion deals with faith. But both are based on something and the person believing it has the end perspective