The physicist, David Bohm, asks: Is there not a kind of "hubris" that seems rather often to penetrate the very fabric of scientific thought, and capture the mind of scientists, whenever any particular scientific theory has been successful for some period of time? ... 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 acc...

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When Christopher Columbus sailed in 1492 he connected two worlds so vastly different that they might as well have been from far ends of the universe. ... Their ceremonies were connected with, as Ruth Underhill notes, "the very fabric of life. ...

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