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.
There are times that I also think it is. I mean thinking of the Illuminati from the past, practically their religion is Science because they believe that there must be good logical explanations as to what the church believes in. They are simply not Atheists, although the beliefs of both are different in some ways. That's why it would be possible to generalize Science as a religion.