“Science” — testing truth experimentally — is certainly preferable to telling and believing tall tales.
But that’s not enough to fill the gap the tall tales fill.
The tales are not just about what’s true but about what’s right. They mostly get that wrong too, but that’s where the real work lies — and “science” does not show the way.
Banging on about tales of hell-fire being worse than rape is not showing the way.
Nor is scolding elderly church-goers.
“Science” is psychopathic, or at best autistic and actuarial. Ethics is incomparably more important: A planet where people are doing right, even if they are believing tall tales, is infinitely better than a scientistic juggernaut driven only by experimental facts.
And that fact is not a “scientific” one.