What she said was probably at one time postulated and taught to her as hard scientific fact ‘truth’, only to be shelved away later.
A man’s rationalizations do not equal truth even if several million agree on the same issue. So yes some number of scientists could well be on the ship of fools. It is the scientists who are still asking themselves questions about the unknowable and questioning their answers to it that I resonate with.
Since we are endowed with free will, a man makes his own destiny by the totality of his thoughts actions beliefs.
I remember a quote out of the Mahabharata from reading it many years ago so I might have got it wrong a little. It says something like ‘Beware Arjuna, those who worship lessor gods will go onto them’.
And science doesn't claim to be “truth”, but to be an accurate model that allows explanation and prediction. Once again you show you have no inkling of what it is you oppose.
You do indeed seem to worship a lessor god, but again, this is about a hominid fossil, not your peculiar theological beliefs.
Maybe this:
“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.”
Or perhaps:
“The results obtained by these foolish persons are temporary. Those who worship devas [demigods] attain the devas, and those who worship Me attain to me.”