I don't even know what science acting as a religion even means, quite frankly. Religions rely on the fact that their tenets, dogma, 'teachings' etc are fixed and unchanging. Science is constantly moving and changing as it finds new things to discover. While people can become dogmatic about science to the point where it can seem like worship, that only weakens the definition of "worship" such that football, Star Trek and money become religions.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
