Science is indistinguishable from magic

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke

Science will replace religion as the ordinary person's belief system, not through violence or intentional disproof of religion's holy texts, but because it will be seen as magic.
And because science delivers.

Science is becoming so advanced that comprehension of the higher studies is beyond the ordinary person, or even beyond scientists in another field.
It is as magic to them.
They will believe it without truly understanding.

The need for real results in combatting climate change will bring more converts to science.
Forest fires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes have started to increase in frequency and it will get worse. People will look for help.
Real problems require real solutions. Religion will be relegated as a system dealing with personal happiness as science gets more support to deal with climate change.

This will bring more corruption to religions in their fear of the loss of followers, which when exposed, will turn even more people away and into the more moral and honest compass of science.

Priests in Africa claimed condoms had holes in them to let AIDS through, which is a death sentence to millions who will now shun condoms as worthless.
Science is working to eradicate AIDS and encourage truthful education regarding birth control.
These kinds of acts show people the true face of religions and they are turning away in disgust, and turning towards science.

Science is leading us into the future in everyday items like cel phones and in discoveries that will take us to the stars, end hunger, and prove that we are all one human tribe.

It may not be magic, but sometimes it seems that way because science and wonder have always walked hand in hand.

Gone are the days when everyone in the tribe could be taught how to use a spear thrower.
The tribe is too large for all of us to know about advances in quantum entanglement, which even Einstein called, "spooky."

It is a wondrous magic, this knowledge of the arcane, and none can know it all.
But the system of scientific review keeps it from being blind belief.

It is the system that we understand and trust, even if much of the knowledge is indistinguishable from magic.