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Listening to a podcast about how contemporary elites have made science and technique a sort of secular religion prompted in me this thought: a theist (God-centered) and a scientific paradigm are completely alike in that it’s centered on something other than one’s self. In the case of theism, the focus is on an all-powerful, omniscient God that’s outside of ourselves, and to which we must serve and conform. In the case of science, that central role is Nature, which is all powerful and contains...