Here's What Happens When You Eliminate Science's Spiritual Foundations

John Zmirak at The Stream nails it in comments on our colleague Richard Weikart's book The Death of Humanity. As Zmirak observes, science depends on certain "pre-philosophic" axioms, having to do with the universe and its underlying transcendent "rational structure," that derive not from science but from elsewhere:

None of these assertions about reality were the fruit of intellectuals brooding about the nature of the universe. Instead, they are the lessons the Jewish people took from God's r...