Science as Religion?

Science is the opposite of Religion.

Religion / Faith / Superstition dressed up for going to Temple on Holy Days is based on Faith in things that cannot be backed up by objective evidence.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/01/09/missionary_from_toronto_winning_converts_on_climate_change.html

' “People ask me if I believe in global warming. I tell them, ‘No, I don’t,’ because belief is faith; faith is the evidence of things not seen,” Hayhoe said. “Science is evidence of things seen. '

In the case of Climate Change "things seen" includes the temperature record, the tide gauge record of Sea Level Rise, and the observations of melted ice. 

By the way Arctic Ice  Extent and Volume this year are below the Record Low year of 2012, have been all winter. 

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png

http://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger/ice_volume/BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrentV2.1.png