We take a train to go to Tarascon or Rouen and we take death to go to a star. Science, by which I mean scientific reasoning, looks to me like an instrument which will one day take us very far. For instance, at one time the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical.
None nowadays denies it.
Well, nowadays, in spite of that, we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life too is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know at present.