Lame Science? Blind Religion?
—Sideris 2019

“Lame Science? Blind Religion?” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54(2019):351-353. Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/233638

Commentary on Lisa Sideris, Consecrating Science. 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, found in diverse cultural and religious traditions. I agree with her that science elevated to a commanding world view, 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.