hello from messenjah of one

Hi, Kierk. Welcome back. When asked if I am spiritual, I am tempted to repy "Yes, I enjoy the occasional glass of wine." That's a way of saying that I really don't know what people mean by "spiritual".In any case, some people say that they are spiritual but not religious. I'm still not sure what they mean by "spiritual", though I have a rough guess. So I'm going to use the word in accordance with that rough guess, for the purposes of this post.Conservatives criticize science as being very mechanistic, and presumably that implies that scientists ignore the spiritual.Here's a blog post that I read this morning: How to Save the GOPIt reports that some conservatives think they can save the GOP by emphasizing charter schools.Personally, as I look at the conservative approach to education, including their emphasis on charter schools, I see conservatives as being very mechanistic about education and ignoring the spiritual.So perhaps conservatives and liberals just have very different ways of looking at things. And perhaps you are too invested in the conservative perspective and have missed a lot of what liberals (which includes many scientists) take to be important.