If it had, would this thread exist? Belief in, and experience of, something Divine continues to shape humanity.
I feel like definitions of terms are needed for this thread to be at all productive. God is many different things to different individuals and cultures. To which of these do we refer?
Similarly, are we restricting science to empiricism? If that's the case, science has little relevance to an experience of interior illumination or spiritual guidance, and perhaps even less relevance to a cultural belief system.
I think the question itself, and the enduring popularity of this general topic, point to something burning deep in the collective mind. The strictly empirical and materialist culture of modernity tells us that what is really real is only frisky dirt. There aren't Gods or angels, and what does exist certainly has no capacity to give a damn about your well-being. Or so the story goes.
And yet we experience love every day. People continue to have transcendent experiences of mystical unity, and bathe in the immanent wonder of existence. The scientific materialist story is unfit to describe these truths. Yet it continues to try to do so, because we have also falsely limited religion to its mythic conformist stage.
Religious and secular cultures are both repressing the emergence of mature spiritual institutions. And as our world careens out of control, we know something is amiss. The issue is that we need a new story of our place and purpose. When we have that established, God and science will no longer need to tear at each other's throats. When we truly feel at home in this place, we won't need to chase after money or push and shove and bend the planet to our will.