Are you serious? If anything is pitting itself against something, it is the religious trying to suppress knowledge in order to prop up their superstitions.
EDIT: In order to avoid simply offering a flippant (if true) one-word reply, let me also say that your comment is as guilty of painting with an overly broad brush as the GP comment.
Some religious folk are anti-science. Some scientists are rabidly anti-religious. Most of both are neither. There are just a lot more religious people than there are scientists, and religion tends to lend itself towards being a pulpit for extreme views more readily than science. Coupling those facts, of course it's going to seem like religion wants to beat science up and leave it for dead.
That's a pretty broad brush, too.
Seriously, both religious and scientific folk need to get over themselves on this schtick. Policy moves forward at a glacial pace because culture abhors all change, and regularly seeks the path of least resistance.