What I meant about the 'last war' comment was that the basic assumption of paradigm theory is that existing ideas may be wrong. In principle this is a legitimate and important scientific stance, except that it has potential to be forced into a logical reduction to absurdity. Many existing ideas are true, and cannot be proved wrong. The dominant scientific paradigm is very robust against criticism because it has such heavy weight of evidence and method on its side.
Paradigm theory, at its most extreme, says it may be possible that our existing scientific explanation of the nature of the universe and reality is entirely incorrect, that existing science has flawed assumptions at its heart that produce systemically false conclusions.
We see the model for this view in 'the last war' of paradigm theory, with the observation that Newton was completely incorrect about the relation between time and space, producing the need for the relativity revolution, and that the Bible was completely incorrect about creation, producing the need for the evolution revolution.
My attitude here is that we should not expect to see such fundamental paradigm shifts within science again, simply because our current frameworks provide such high explanatory power that we should assume new knowledge will add to them rather than refute them.
By the way, I still don't understand why Quantum Mechanics constitutes a paradigm shift, since the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle only really shows that quantum events are below our measurement threshold, not that the universe definitely has a radical indeterminacy. This is why Einstein said God does not play dice.
Religion is another story. The supernatural paradigm is now in process of being overturned as entirely false, precisely because we need to see the materialist discoveries of science as absolutely true. Scientific knowledge is not compatible with the non-evidentiary fantasy of conventional faith.
We see precisely the sort of upheaval in conflicting new explanations of religion that Kuhn predicts in his description of the structure of scientific revolutions. New theories are radically incompatible, and have not yet produced a compelling alternative vision. The current paradigm shift on religion is moving through stages of ignoring, ridicule, debate and acceptance.
For example there is debate between mythicists and atheists about whether religion should be reformed or abolished. Both see a need for a paradigm shift away from prevailing Christian orthodoxy, but the vision of a new understanding has not been articulated with sufficient clarity to produce any new consensus on a replacement paradigm, a framework that would explain what bits of the old paradigm remain valid and which do not.
My view is that an absolute stance on scientific law is needed to bring about a paradigm shift in religious concepts. While we stick with the Kuhn attitude of 'perhaps Einstein and Darwin will be proved wrong in basic concepts' we entertain a radical doubt similar to David Hume's questioning of causality 200 years ago. Such empirical doubt is needed to 'wake us from our dogmatic slumber', as Kant put it, but is simply unable to establish traction to prove the error of supernatural thinking in religion.
The need is for a new Kant to Kuhn's Hume, showing that synthetic a priori propositions (necessary truths) are logically essential for experience to be possible, so that any expected paradigm shifts will expand on existing scientific frameworks, not replace them in fundamental concepts. Absolute knowledge is a condition of experience.