Is this quote from the Lewis essay, "God In The Dock" a prophetic word?

"I dread the government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They ‘cash in’. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science."

In the name of science I now pronounce you a heretic. Poof, you're a heretic. Sounds like the same old dark, magical incantation shamans used years ago.