It is perfectly true that science attacks values. Not directly, since science is no judge of them and must ignore them... man must at last wake out of his millenary dream and discover his total solitude, his fundamental isolation. He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings or his crimes (1974:160).

When science is projected as a religion (scientism), it becomes highly unscientific and results in being bad as both a science and a religion. Many scientists recognize, especially in the age of quantum theory, that any scientific utopianism is, fortunately, a long dead dream. The physicist, David Bohm, asks:

Is there not a kind of "hubris" that se

Religion itself bears much responsibility for the diminution of intelligence and the appearance, for really the first time in history, of any degree of agnosticism, atheism and the absence of the sacred. As the modern age began, religion (particularly Christianity) resisted the cosmological observations and theories of scientists (consider the case of Galileo) because of a perceived opposition to and discrediting of certain biblical and theological propositions. This pattern of responses to science would have negative results down to the present time. It was not until modern biblical scholarship developed in the nineteenth century that biblical writings became understood as expressing primarily transformational religious or spiritual truths rather than just informational accounts.

When scientists forget or fail to learn that science itself is a symbol system, based upon a reimagination of the cosmos in the form of theories, models and paradigms, there is the psychological danger of becoming scientific literalists who take the symbol or metaphor to be reality in itself. Appleyard highlights what one of the great quantum theoreticians, Niels Bohr, stressed: "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature" (145). This would not only deflate any supposed exclusivistic epistemic superiority, but enable science to be science and not a barely disguised, a priori metaphysical ideology such as when Steven Weinberg says in the First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of a Universe that human life is a "farcical outcome of a chain of accidents" ... in "an over- whelmingly hostile universe ... and faces a future extinction... the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless" (1977:155).

Rolston says that "we interpret what we see in order to see it" (8). Science and religion conceptualize and engage reality by the contemplation of existence and by the images that contemplation yields. It is the opposite of magic as the invocation of control. Quantum theory, at this particular time, has reignited the imagination of science and perhaps added some humility concerning the epistemic and metaphysical limitations of science.

No development of modern science has had a more profound impact on human thinking than the advent of quantum theory. Wrenched out of centuries-old thought patterns, physicists of a generation ago found themselves compelled to embrace a new metaphysics. The distress which this orientation caused continues to this day. Basically physicists have suffered a severe loss: their hold on reality (1985:15).

Much of what is required for a fuller intelligence and for better science and religion can be provided by religion itself. The theories of science are tentative and always subject to modification or replacement. Thus, science needs religion to give it a significant context, perhaps even a teleology, within which to work in order to avoid trivialization of the unique meaning, role and capacities of the human person and a total relativism that deconstructs the very notion of value(s) into a vapid kind of tolerance. Religion needs science to help avoid fanaticism and dogmatism and a consuming nostalgia for a sacred past.

This sort of proclamation is really not science, but a particular extrapolation of then current scientific thought,

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