While science is responsible for creating fact-minded people, I disagree that “it has nothing to say to us.” Science is based on truths that are based on observations. If one believes in science, one does not necessarily renounce all other forms of thought. There have been many philosophers, not all famous, but philosophers none the less that believe in science yet still ponder man’s burning questions. Science is known for matter of fact solutions to often-complex problems. Science can actually be a veil to one’s true nature. What I mean is that someone who questions life itself can often take satisfaction in an answer closely related to the one they seek. Science often can be a building block to philosophy. For instance if one seeks the meaning of life, knowledge of evolution may bring that person one step close to the answer he seeks.Lamettrie and Freud brought up two very interesting but different points of view. Ironically arguments on both sides could be made for many of the statements in agreement. One statement that was made was “Man is a part of nature, not separate from it.” I personally agree with this statement, however I think society as a whole is in denial. I think that man sees himself as superior to nature and all of our building and industry is man creating it’s own nature. Man needs come to a tangible realization that we are nothing without nature. Man cannot survive without nature, but nature can thrive without man.Science places a focus on the later. Science sees the apparent necessity of nature more clearly than the average man does. Another point they made is “Man lives for happiness or pleasure.” Scientifically speaking this is true. In nature all creatures live based on an apparent pleasure. You don’t see monkeys that are “work-aholics”, or birds that build their nests in the “cheapest tree”. Naturally speaking, ...
