Interesting article about popular science books. Are they becoming more like religious texts? here is an excerpt from the article..
“…….By writing about concepts like quantum entanglement and cosmic background radiation, physicists are trying to help us acclimate to a modern metaphysical reality that remains permanently new and challenging, even though its essence has been clear for centuries. That’s because we are all born with an instinct to find human meanings in the universe. The scientific revolution isn’t a historical event that happened a few centuries ago, but a process that takes place in the life of every person who learns scientific truth.
The final irony, however, is that this piety toward the truth is itself a legacy of the old, religious metaphysics that science rejects…..”
More of this here: [The Ontology of Pop Physics]