What successful predictions has uniformity made?
Uh.....do you drive a car or ride public transportation? Do you use plastics in any way, like to house the computer you're typing on? Do you heat your house with natural gas? Fuel oil? Electricity made from one of those?
What principles do you think oil companies have used for the last century to find the raw materials for all that stuff?
"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons,
ca. 830 AD