Science VS. Church Who Win's When?

In those times’s the bible was the ultimate power the church ruled the world. People did whatever they needed to do to follow the bibles teachings. “In A sense that almost no one now understands, the words of the bible were the ultimate and encompassing truth itself. That depth of belief in the sufficiency of language is also one of the shaping forces of the King James Bible.” PG 182 Why was the church so powerful then and not now? Was it because science in those times was not as powerful as it is today, if we look at it people now look towards science to lead the way, the generations before us looked at the church for answer’s. “every last echo of meaning would be squeezed from the words of the bible.” Pg 181
As we look back in history the church was the one who built civilization who put it’s “structure” people believed whatever the church said even if they didn’t see it, they were too afraid to know what was really happening, but as our civilization grew, people came bumping into science and found that they could explain a lot of things, the church couldn’t. People started to leave the church behind and start thinking that everything that science tells them to is true.