In the Lab of Life is Science your only Instrument ?

This is a commentary on an article I recently read:

The End Of Reason
By David Morris, AlterNet. Posted March 31, 2005.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21641/

I agree with a lot of what is said in the article by David Morris.
Confessedly, I am a spiritual person. To be more specific, a
Christian. And, to anyone who wants even more detail, a Roman
Catholic. In his terminology, I am very superstitious.

In the world I live in today the physical is as much a mystery as is
the spiritual. Although the passing of ages has brought revelation
in both. Science being an instrument used to uncover truth in the
physical world, religion being an instrument which we use to uncover
truth in the spiritual. Our knowledge of both is today only a fraction
of what it will be centuries from now. However, I do believe we have
uncovered enough to establish a few Laws or Truths. Thankfully,
according to my understanding of the research, these Laws do not
contradict, they are interconnected. As they are all that we have, they
are enough. The pursuit of answers and explanations beyond these is
a noble and necessary cause, yet, let us not refrain from making
decisions and acting on what we hold as true today.

In my view, David Morris suffers from the same faults as those who he attacks in his article. Relying on the physical laws of science alone will bear the same result as any Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu who relies only on their spiritual laws. In either case, the believer is often mis-lead by their own in-humanity, or that of the laws they are following, perhaps even both.

It 's your choice whether you go on to call people and institutions of faith - superstitious. In so doing I hope you agree that those who rely on science alone for their truths and laws are as equally superstitious. In this way I guess we are all a bunch of Gypsies. And a Gypsie I may be, which is OK to me. If not, I might actually whole-heartedlyagree with David Morris or Justice Scalia when, as cited in the article, he so eloquently speaks for all of us Christians.

"The more Christian a country is the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral," he observed. "I attribute that to the fact that, for the believng Christian, death is no big deal."