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Science and religion.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: In your March editorial you say, "Those who like to speculate that there are avenues to knowledge other than those offered by science are having themselves on ... [though] this does not stop the many prattlers on the ABC who talk about the 'search for meaning', the numinous or the spiritual."
Your reverence for science as the path to knowledge is not shared by the scientists themselves. In The Human Touch, Michael Frayn points out that scientists are:
deeply divided about what science and its laws are. In the course of the last hundred years, since the beginnings of relativity and quantum theory, some of the scientists most ...
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