Science as the New Religion

My concerns regarding what exactly Bacon meant by the combination of science and Christianity are similar to those expressed by Peter. In the New Atlantis, the Father of Solomon's house that visits Bensalem seems to be only a glorified scientist. Both scientific and religious descriptions of the Father abound. Bacon insinuates throughout that science and Christianity can compliment one another, and with this I would agree. Bacon, however, believes that all of science's frontiers need to be investigated and broken, violently if necessary. Is their nothing in nature that science should not hold as sacred, as not able to be investigated? Christianity, at least today, holds that their should be some limits to scientific inquiry (cloning, gene splicing, etc.). What would Bacon say about these limits? To me, it seems, that he would disregard them.