but the truth is science is also a religion with no foundations of truth in this debate
Science is not a religion. Science is the systematic approach to acquiring knowledge about how the world works using the scientific method - that is, generating hypotheses and theories through continual observation and testing.
To argue that science is on the same level as religion is to ignore the fact that religious faith broadly does not admit that it could be wrong. Consequently, religions perform no experiments or observations to test its pre-supposed conclusuons
Religion is a broad topic of course, and there are myriad disparate theologies and philosophies. However, I am not aware of any religion that repeatedly tests its propositions - either in terms of small details, or the broad foundations - with experiments and observations. Certainly not the case with any Christian theology that I am aware of.
P.Z. Myers, an evolutionary biologist at Minnesota University wrote in 2007
"The tired and familiar claim that science has to be taken on faith, so it's just like religion. I don't have faith [in science]. I have expectations and hypotheses, but these are lesser presuppositions than what is implied by faith—and I'm also open to the possibility that any predictions I might make will fail."
Scott Atran an anthropologist stated (also in 2007)
"Scientific faith in universal law is not dogmatic. While a scientist must make presuppositions in order to get started, everything is revisable and discardable, even belief in the regular patterning of the universe."
Scientists do not have faith in a pre-determined set of suppositions when making conclusions from scientific data they have collected. In science
everything is revisable and discardable at any point, upon the provision of new evidence. In other words any scientific theory or hypothesis is
falsifiable. That means there is the capacity for some proposition, statement, theory or hypothesis to be proven wrong. That capacity is an
essential component of the scientific method and hypothesis testing.
A
scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation and/or model of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been
repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world. For example the "theory of evolution" refers to a particular
model of evolution, not that evolution could possibly not happen.
In contrast religion is a cultural system of behaviours and practices. Religions acknowledge revelation, faith and sacredness, while also acknowledging philosophical and metaphysical explanations with regard to the study and 'meaning' of the universe. What happened before the 'Big Bang' is
not known by science. Many religions attribute what happened before or what caused the 'Big Bang' to 'God' or some other supernatural deity/deities.