Lame Science? Blind Religion?

In Consecrating Science, Lisa Sideris argues that an anthropocentric and science-based cosmology encourages human arrogance and diminishes a sense of wonder in human experience immersed in the natural world, as found in diverse cultural and religious traditions. I agree with her that science elevate...

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Main Author: Rolston, Holmes 1932- (Author)
Contributors: Sideris, Lisa H. 1965- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- [2019]
In: Zygon
Year: 2019, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 351-353
Review of:Consecrating science (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017) (Rolston, Holmes)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Scientism / Critique of religion
Further subjects:B Book review
B cosmogenesis
B wonderland Earth
B Lisa Sideris
B Wonder
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Summary:In Consecrating Science, Lisa Sideris argues that an anthropocentric and science-based cosmology encourages human arrogance and diminishes a sense of wonder in human experience immersed in the natural world, as found in diverse cultural and religious traditions. I agree with her that science elevated to a commanding worldview, scientism, is a common and contemporary mistake, to be deplored, a lame science. But I further argue that science has introduced us to the marvels of deep nature and vastly increased our human appreciation of nature as a wonderland at levels great and small. Sideris is right to fear consecrating science. She-and the humanists, sages, and saviors-need also to fear blindness to what science has to teach us about cosmogenesis and wonderland Earth.
ISSN:1467-9744
Reference:Kritik in "Wonder Sustained (2019)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12508