Apparently today will be poetry day. I found this poem in a book I was reading. It is by a man named Mortimer Collins (1860):

Life and the Universe show spontaneity:
Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!
Churches and creeds are all lost in the mists;
Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Wise are their teachers beyond all comparison,
Comte, Huxley, Tyndall, Morley and Harrison.
Who will venture to enter the lists
With such a squandron of Positivists?

There was an ape in the days that were earlier;
Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;
Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist -
Then he as Man and a Positivist.

Some things never change. The core argument of this is the idea that science represents a system of belief, not fact. Also, it casts the postivists in terms suggesting their arrogance. Actually there were multiple versions of this poem. Here is another:

Life and the Universe show Spontaneity;
Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!
Churches and creeds are all lost in the mists;
Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Wise are their teachers beyond all comparison,
Comte, Huxley, Tyndall, Mill, Morley, and Harrison;
Who will adventure to enter the lists,
With such a squadron of Positivists?

Social arrangements are awful miscarriages;
Cause of all crime is our system of marriages;
Poets with sonnets, and lovers with trysts,
Kindle the ire of the Positivists.

Husbands and wives should be all one community,
Exquisite freedom with absolute unity;
Wedding rings worse are then manacled wrists,
Then he was a MAN - and a Positivist.

If you are pious, (mild form of insanity,)
Bow down and worship the mass of humanity,
Other religions are buried in mists;
We're our own gods, say the Positivists.

The framing of science as an alternative religion appears again, and this time is added the idea that believers in evolution want to destroy existing institutions.

I thought I would republish these because it gives you some perspective. This culture war has been going on for a long time, largely with the same arguments. That could stir you to anger, but it might be better if we started thinking of better arguments. Maybe then it might actually end.