"Science and technology lead to creation of resources..."

No, they lead to finding and digging up of resources.

"and more efficient use of resources"

Efficiency doesn't make anything better, it just increases the amount of the resources that we create--oops---use.

"and less religious societies and less wars"

Okay, it's clear you have a story in your mind that ultimately leads to jetpacks among the stars.

"and lower birth rates." This doesn't mean much. We went from 3.5 to 7.5 billion in 45 years. We had plenty of science and technology during that time, all doing their thing with the uranium and the fossil fuel and the steel.