Faith writes:I grew up in this science-besotted world, I was part of the Sputnik generation that got a megadose of science propaganda in high school, pushed as the salvation of America and indeed the world.
Not my experience.
To be fair, I grew up in Australia, so perhaps a poor comparison.
Faith writes:EVERYTHING was reduced to science.
That sounds like exaggeration. It has never been that way.
I'll have to guess that either you were badly taught, or that science is just a mismatch for your personality (much like art appreciation would be a mismatch for my personality).
AZPaul3 writes:Which are meanings you give to objects through your eyes, philosophy, acculturation, hope. The science did not belittle your ability to do this one bit.
Faith writes:Oh yes it did. It dictated the terms in which I was allowed to have such experiences, which is what you are doing now. Imputing my experience to mere subjectivity, reducing all of it to a figment of the mind. That's really a form of soul murder.
Weird. What's mere about subjectivity?
Faith writes:And it is primarily the worldview of reductionistic science that created this shrunken miserable trivial meaningless world.
I'm not a reductionist, and to me, science is rich in meaning. Art -- not so much.
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity