The article lost me at "Let me ask you this. Do you think Chinese medicine would have survived for more than 3,000 years and spread to every corner of the globe

The article lost me at "Let me ask you this. Do you think Chinese medicine would have survived for more than 3,000 years and spread to every corner of the globe if it wasn’t a powerful, complete system of medicine?"... asked on the 151st anniversary of the publication of origin of species, no less, in a world still full of religion.