God Don’t Travel

The difference between religion and science is that the one is purely local whilst the other is universal. If there were a planet like Earth somewhere else in the galaxy with a similar evolutionary path, the inhabitants would know the Pythagoras theorem, Boyle’s law and Einstein’s theory of relativity (but under different creator names) but they would have their own local brands of weird religions rather than the ones we know. And yet, you can be sure there that they would have “community leaders” eager to blame an earthquake on inappropriate behaviour by tourists on a “sacred” mountain. The perverseness of allegedly advanced life forms is something else which is universal.