What does this sentence mean?

[Actinium]

Hello. Can you please explain this sentence? I can't get the meaning:

Science has conducted God to it's frontiers, thanking him for his provisional services.


Thanks in advance

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forum, Actinium.

Please tell us the source and author of this very odd sentence. For one thing, it's should be its.

Without more context we can only guess at the meaning, and we don't waste our time guessing.

[Piscean]

It's a quotation from Heinrich Caro, a German scientist. He was suggesting that science was pushing superstition and religious belief out of its domain. The idea of a deity had been a useful one for a time, but that time was now past.

[emsr2d2]

Actinium, you have the explanation now and Piscean has quoted the source for you. Please remember in future that you must give the source and author of any text in post #1.

[YAMATO2201]

The idea of a deity had been a useful one for a time,

Does his provisional services refer to the blessings that the idea of a deity brought to mankind?

[emsr2d2]

It has nothing to do with blessings. It's just a humorous/businesslike way of saying "Thanks for everything you've done up to now. We'll take it from here."

[YAMATO2201]

It has nothing to do with blessings. It's just a humorous/businesslike way of saying "Thanks for everything you've done up to now. We'll take it from here."

So did the author, in a humorous/businesslike manner, say goodbye to the idea of a deity, with the sentence in question?

[emsr2d2]

Yes, as Piscean indicated in post #3.

[Actinium]

It's a quotation from Heinrich Caro, a German scientist. He was suggesting that science was pushing superstition and religious belief out of its domain. The idea of a deity had been a useful one for a time, but that time was now past.

Thank you very much. Another question: Does "conduct" in this sentence mean "push out" or "adjust"?
and does "thanking" refer to "science"?

[Piscean]

'Conduct' means take/lead/escort. It is Science that is thanking God.