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Originally Posted by
StephenHero 
Scientific study in general has been and will continually be the largest factor in the questioning of religious tenets based on existence and nature of the universe so it's pretty safe to assume that the leader in the realm of study will be the loudest and most clear voice of influence in that process even if NASA scientists aren't calling up Benedict to share what they learned that day. This is a slow process that will take hundreds of year but eventually science will directly be responsible for shattering some notion that humans are alone at the center of the universe which was created with a magic wand and in which God has a plan for all of us.
I agree wholeheartedly, and I hope I am around to see at least some of the shattering of modern religion to the hand of scientific logic.