The victory of science has been encompassing that our very idea of religion has changed.

Mostly don't associate religion with farming and even most times medicine. Even many zealots prefer to forget that traditional religions ever laid claim to these domains.

‘So what if we turn to engineers and doctors?’ say the zealots. ‘That proves nothing. What has religion got to do with agriculture or medicine in the first place?’

Traditional religions have lost so much turf because, frankly, they just weren’t very good in farming or healthcare. The true expertise of priests and gurus has never really been rainmaking, healing, prophecy or magic. Rather, it has always been interpretation.

A priest is not somebody who knows how to perform the rain dance and end the drought. A priest is somebody who knows how to justify
why the rain dance failed, and why we must keep believing and make prayers.

Yet it is precisely their genius forinterpretation that puts religious leaders at a disadvantage when they compete against scientists. Scientists too know how to cut corners and twist the evidence, but in the end, the mark of science is the willingness to admit failure and try a different tack. That’s why scientists
gradually learn how to grow better crops and make better medicines, whereas
priests and gurus learn only how to make better excuses.

Over the centuries, even the true believers have noticed the difference, which is why religious authority has been dwindling in more and more technical fields. This is also why
the entire world has increasingly become a single civilisation. When things
really work, everybody adopts them.

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