Chris Lucas writes: Scientists, in their attempts to maintain a detached ‘objectivity’ have always rejected the consideration of subjects, of values, of teleology, of purpose. This bias has had the unfortunate effect of throwing out the baby of ‘meaning’ with the bathwaters of ‘delusion’ and ‘irrationality’ by trying to force a continuous complex reality into a straitjacket of disjoint either/or ‘factual’ categories. Under the misguided assumptions of Aristotelian logic, if the ‘objective’ is ‘true’ then the ‘subjective’ must be ‘false’ and thus to be avoided at all costs. The results of this has been blindness to much of our human reality and it has allowed emotional and holistic indifference by thinkers full scope to destroy the very structure of our planet and our lives as sensing, feeling and acting organisms. A world of detached ‘things’ has replaced, under a scientifically falsified philosophy, a reality of connected ‘processes’. To repair this long-running erroneous worldview we must first realise that science is about people – no people, no science. It is humans that generate all scientific theories, that categorise the world, that act on those theories. To deny science has values is to deny ourselves, a self-contradiction quite absurd in its repercussions within both our academic and economic structures. (03/28/02)
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