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Hard sciences (biology, physics, etc) and religion are not the same thing, if only by degree. We can equate just about anything if we play enough semantics. But it's also true that some people treat science as if it was a religion - accepting scientific data as facts that cannot be questioned, treating scientists like faultless Gods who know everything, etc. And there are some "sciences" that are arguably just religions - specifically social sciences.
Traditional science attempts to observe and understand the underlying principles of the physical world by experimentation. It doesn't make moral or ethical judgements about those principles, nor does it give any metaphysical purpose for it. If a principle is found to be valid and allows us to make predictions, we assume them to be true unless there are alternative testable explanations. In this way, science is quite limited but it's the best tool we have for understanding the physical world.
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