I'd be willing to say that for a great many sciences, or at least how science is generally interpreted by most people. Especially the sort of people who are usually the most anti-religion.
For most people, "science" is the religion of the modern age and "scientists" (ie, anyone with some pretense of academic authority) are basically the new priests. We just traded in frocks for white coats and the idiots fall lock-step in line while crowing about how enlightened they are for not falling for any of that "religion" nonsense. It's still blind faith and not really understanding the tenets of what you claim to believe in, just with a different paradigm to put on the pedestal.
Any scientist that isn't a full blown skeptic, is a Scientologist, ok? ---