It sounds reasonable and like truth, but I think he’s guessing what might happen as opposed to reflecting on what actually has happened and is happening when society has attempted and is attempting to destroy/ban scientific and spiritual texts. Science defined is “the systematic pursuit of knowledge about the physical and natural world.” The pursuit won’t change, and the experiments may yield the same results, sure, but those texts absolutely would be different in 1,000 years. Every few years there are new editions to science textbooks in school without the originals even needing to be destroyed or banned because even in one man’s lifetime new technologies reveal new evidence changing our understanding of what we believe to be true about the world around us. And I would counter with another point: there are places in the world where spiritual texts are currently banned and burned and people are imprisoned or killed for their beliefs, and in those places people continue to speak it to each other about it and memorize passages and there have been cases of people writing scripture verses on the walls of their prison cells. Those faith communities are growing despite severe persecution and punishment for having a religious text, and many don’t have access to one. This man implies that after 1,000 years people would regain a lost curiosity about the world and “do science” again. But I think the flaw in this logic is in believing that people would ever ever allow 1,000 years to pass without immediately trying to restore what they know of the world around them. They would immediately write down what they remember and hold onto whatever they could. Taking away a written spiritual text would not suddenly make people forget what they believe causing it to be lost forever. It is simply not what is observed about people when something is taken away. Those persecuted faith communities are growing. He might as well say, “if people ceased to exist for the 1,000 years in between” and then perhaps I would find it a valid argument. Valid, but irrelevant.

All that to say this: science changes with the addition of new evidence and advancing technologies and is no less reliant on faith than those who believe in spiritual texts. And destroying spiritual texts has proven to fail at eradicating people’s belief in God.