Why just science? Look at the rest of society. We are fighting a war we won thirty years ago, because no one knows how to turn off the MIC.

Economics seems largely bought and paid for, by those at the top of the food chain.

As well as most of politics.

Has there been as powerful a cultural paradigm shifting insight into society, as monotheism, in the last few thousand years?

Yet ask yourself, would a spiritual absolute be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, or the essence of sentience, from which we rise?

Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as they emphasized a diverse spectrum of life, not just this father figure lawgiver, that the Romans adopted as they were solidifying the Empire and shedding any remnants of the Republic.

Is money a social contract enabling mass societies to function, essentially an accounting device, or is it a commodity to mine from society?

Keep in mind, blood is a medium, fat is a store. Our entire culture is built around the premise of trying to store a medium. Does it take a degree to see that is stupid?

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, reciprocal reality. There is still a lot of growing up left to do.