Ya know, it was those wonderful religious guys that discovered all this in the monastery, too. They were like, “Wow, this plant is a male! And THIS one is the same species but it’s a FEMALE!! WOW!!!” and Nob was like “Yes, you have learned one of Nature’s secrets!” and they performed experiments, and came to know more about agriculture than even royalty - and then people would accuse them of being sorcerers and so on.
People are always like “Religious people are SO STUPID because they don’t believe in evolution!” and it was the spiritual life in fact that gave us many, many valuable scientific discoveries.
IIRC, Mendel was a monk..........