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Both terms, "science" and "religion" are poorly defined so it is hard to answer accurately.
A religion could be viewed as an allegiance to a system of belief that answers the Great Questions (Who am I? What is my purpose? How did things come to be? What happens after I die?). Religious views that are shared by different people and they work together supportively within this system could be called an "organized religion." Pretty much everyone has a religious view since they have opinions to these questions.
Science can be viewed as a process of analysis (scientific method) or the body of study of natural (repeatable, testable, observable) phenomena.
Since the scientific method isn't very effective in answering definitively the Great Questions (How does one test a hypothesis for "What is my purpose?" or "What happens after I die?") Science and Religion is often thought of as separate. However, many religions do see themselves as being in some sense "scientific." Certainly, the scientific method (induction and deduction cycle) is used by religious groups along with other groups. Likewise, there are people and groups that think of themselves as devotees to Science that hypothesize or at least assume answers to Great Questions.
In the end of this... since there is no way of testing definitively answers to the Great Questions, no religious group could be described as based on science. However, no field of science that definitively embraces answers to the Great Questions can be called science (in the narrow sense of the term) either. A "scientific group" that claims answers to these questions has, to some extent, become a religion (organized or otherwise).
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R. C. Wallace has written: 'Science and religion' -- subject(s): Religion and science 'Religion, science and the modern world' -- subject(s): Religion and science
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