If blind faith in the scientific method is present, then yes, it is starting to look like religion. The scientific method cannot be proven; not for the present, the future nor the past. Nothing is certain in this world, at best it is very likely.
Imagine that you had replaced 'anarcho-capitalist' with an ethnicity. Pick your favourite.
Then people wouldn't make sacrifises to gods in/of nature; it gains no leader. Fact is people like to control each other. That's one of the reasons that we have debates; we do not like to see that people have other opinions than those of our own.
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