I’m not really into fantasy, at least not for the past 25 years or so at any rate. This shows up as science fiction, but it’s just fantasy nonsense.
It’s bad enough that the author is trying to cram a broken state-sponsored post-dogmatic (17th century dogma council, read the church history) religion into the science fiction genre, but the real crime here is that the author has apparently spent such a huge part of his life confused that he can’t pick apart the differences between religious doctrine, rational thought and mysticism in his own muddled thoughts.
Hey, Morin… look: science isn’t a physical thing. It’s a methodology. Practically speaking, science is about being careful so you don’t say and do really stupid things through blind ignorance and self-delusion. Since you’re religion you shouldn’t have any trouble accepting that human beings are flawed. Psychologists call it self-reinforcement or cognitive bias or whatever. In layman’s terms, we tend to lie to ourselves in order to reinforce our own belief systems. Science is just a step-by-step guide to help prevent (or at least minimize) how often this causes us to make mistakes. Science isn’t one thing while god and religion or another. They are, in point of fact, exactly the same things: philosophies. The principal difference, however, is that one is a philosophical dictation and the other is a philosophical approach. For example scientists, unlike preachers, can’t publish research titled “the universe told me everything works this way” and have millions of fuckwits willing to sacrifice themselves if anyone questions them. Scientists have to actually know what the hell they’re talking about first, and then have a bunch of other scientists apply strict rules to peer review their work before it is published.
Science didn’t make technology. Engineers did that. Science just helps predict which approaches will not be a total waste of time. Engineering is, after all, a fault-prone and time consuming discipline of figuring out what works. This was as true for water wheels and lathes 8,000 years ago as it is today.
Seriously, that’s the problem with your books. You’ve propped up this whole idea of magic, universe, god and church into a fictional universe that is internally inconsistent and incapable of explaining itself. Your attempts just wind up contradicting each other and eventually collapse into barely-lucid rambling that wouldn’t have held my attention when I was 8 and still believed in god.
Write fantasy or religious fiction or something but stay the hell away from science fiction because you’re just going to piss off a bunch of people trying to fob this crap off as having anything remotely worthy of thought-provoking rational thought between its covers.