But the wonderful success of science at explaining the material world threatens to create in scientists a bias toward materialism, the idea that there is nothing in life but stuff. What these Romantics feared was not the science itself, and certainly not reason itself, but a growing materialist worldview that threatened to destroy the poetry not of the rainbow but of our experience of the rainbow.
Science was a victim of its own success. It found answers and in so doing, lost sight of the question: how did God build the universe?
