"She blinded me with Science!"

has to be fair and admit that, although I favor reason and the scientific method over religion and superstition, Science has gotten us in one hell of a pickle. Chloro-flourocarbons wearing out the Earth's protective ozone layer. Massive increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a result of burning fossil fuels in reckless ways that Eighteenth, Nineteenth and even Twentieth-Century science enabled. At least Science also provides us with the solutions to those grave problems science had much to do with bringing about in the first place. Yet when it comes to the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, widespread proliferation of nuclear power plants like Three Mile Island and Fukushima Dai'ichi, and the deadly fallout they created, I'm not so sure even Science can save us. "Captain Picard, we need you and your Enterprise, now!" Still, moi, I prefer analysis and the empirical method over prayer, "speaking in tongues" and self-inflicted rattlesnake bite.