Bertrand Russell on Religion and Science

There was a time in the recent past at which what Bertrand Russell predicted made perfect sense, and was, it seemed, in the process of coming to fruition.

At this point, however, it appears that humankind has hit a hard limit as to its capacity to replace religion with science in terms of informing its thinking and behavior.

And, as resources become more scarce due to environmental collapse, it’s understandable that the human race will become even more tribal, more superstitious, and less reliant on fair and objective methods of managing our affairs and solving the problems that we face as a species.