We Batter This Planet As If We

Science Has The Cold Facts, But Lacks Religion's Social Organization And Ability To Inspire That Moves People To Act.

Contrary To The Fantasies Of The Fundamentalists, There Was No Deathbed Conversion, No Last Minute Refuge Taken In A Comforting Vision Of A Heaven Or An Afterlife. For Carl, What Mattered Most Was What Was True, Not Merely What Would Make Us Feel Better. Even At This Moment When Anyone Would Be Forgiven For Turning Away From The Reality Of Our Situation, Carl Was Unflinching. As We Looked Deeply Into Each Other's Eyes, It Was With A Shared Conviction That Our Wondrous Life Together Was Ending Forever.

For Most Of The History Of Our Species We Were Helpless To Understand How Nature Works. We Took Every Storm, Drought, Illness And Comet Personally. We Created Myths And Spirits In An Attempt To Explain The Patterns Of Nature.

I Believe That We Are A Story-driven Species And That We Understand How Things Are Put Together, In The Context Of Narrative. It's A Shame That Science Hasn't Been Taught That Way, In A Long Time. It's Usually The Fact Completely Devoid Of Any Human Experience Or Any Idea Of How The Scientist Came To That Conclusion.

I've Been Thinking About The Distorted View Of Science That Prevails In Our Culture. I've Been Wondering About This, Because Our Civilization Is Completely Dependent On Science And High Technology, Yet Most Of Us Are Alienated From Science.