I like to read scientists. There is a refreshing innocence in their world view. In many cases, the scientific perspective is seriously impoverished and unduly unreflective. In other respects, it is the only view we have.

Science begins with the harmless presupposition that our natural world is comprehensible, and that there is an answer to every askable question about it. Harmless in that its ultimate goal is nothing short of a complete explanation of the world. Nothing seems nobler than that. But this presumption is also harmful. Harmful in that holds that science is the measure of all things. This is patently false.