The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.