Scientists like Bernado Kastrup and Donald Hoffman believe that consciousness is primary. That at it’s core, the universe is consciousness. The first human metaphor for existence was religion, the good. It cannot be questioned that good and evil exist within conscious perception, aside from their manifestation. Today science has become our metaphor, trying to account for existence. So popular science has become that it replaced religion. Science is given by repeatable observation. Underlying both religion and science is consciousness, be careful what you think of.