Does science really smash and destroy ignorant beliefs? Only in passing. What science actually has done is manufacture more beliefs than have ever existed at any time in human history. Think of all the stars, species, minerals, chemicals, and black holes that we are now expected to believe in, when our ancestors hadn’t the remotest idea of any of these things.
This reminds me of something in Guerilla Metaphysics:
By coming to terms with an increasing range of objects, human beings do not become nihilistic princes of darkness, but actually the most sincere creatures the earth has ever seen.
By sincere is meant unable to jump out of one's skin, unable to go meta.
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