Does science, like religion, ultimately require you to have faith in it?
No. Science and religion are opposites. Science tells us “Don’t ask me to believe it. Prove it to me.” Science is not a belief system – it’s a thought methodology.
Scientific discoveries and conclusions are always conditional. When better evidence comes along scientists alter their thinking. Scientists revise their picture of the universe to fit the facts. Religion is the contrary: it calls upon people to deny the facts and scientific evidence if it disagrees with scripture. Science rejects appeals to authority, and religion is built upon it.
Science is about increasing or decreasing confidence in a hypothesis, not about switching between complete doubt and complete certainty. Much of scientific methodology is devoted to avoid being deceived, including self-deception. Notably, the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis like any other.
If God were real, the Bible should contain remarkable examples of knowledge that wasn’t known to the scientists of the day. God should be ahead of man’s scientific discoveries, in other words. But he’s not. You can’t find one successful scientific prediction in the Bible.