Ekeko is a god of good luck in Peru and the surrounding region. Photo by Marjorie Manicke.

Science in many minds is genuinely taking the place of religion. Where this is so, the scientist treats the laws of Nature as objective fact to be revered.

James, William The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature, being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion, delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902, New American Library 1958.