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Science in the service of meaninglessness.
SCIENCE IS OFTEN presumed to have played an important part in the demise of faith in the modern world, while remaining unaffected by the situation of meaninglessness that has followed in its wake. This is an overstated claim and one that needs to be re-examined. This essay is a preliminary attempt to sketch out the main lines that such a reexamination might follow and what it might mean for our understanding of the relationship between religion and science.
One of the major reasons for the waning of faith in the West is the decline of community. We are inclined to sentimentalise community now, but it was not so long ago that it was the object of a huge ...
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