How so? Is botany a religious belief? How about geology? How about astronomy? How about physics? Seems to me that at some point or other all these have "gone against" writing found in the Good Book.
Science, properly speaking, refers to observations in the present about the operation of nature. There is no conflict between science (thus defined) and the Bible, unless someone wants to argue against biblical statements like Gen. 8:22 ("While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest,And cold and heat,And summer and winter,And day and night Shall not cease").
If you look at the atheistic Galileo myth, for example, you find that the church teaching of the time was founded on Greek astronomy, not the Bible. They cited a few passages in support, out of context, but it is an obvious historical fact that the belief in geocentrism came from Ptolemy and other Greek writers, not theologians deriving a cosmology from Scripture independent of the Greeks.
The conflict is entirely between historical interpretations and models, which are not directly testable. On the one hand we have observations/documentation in the form of the Bible, on the other we have naturalistic models based on uniformitarian naturalism (which presumes from the outset that God has not intervened in nature).