“Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objective, or the scientific point of view. The means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, lets the chips fall where they may.” (163)
Since pre-industrial revolution humans have …show more content…
Life and death are engrained in evolution, but the fundamental issue in the context of the book is who has the divine right to dictate the fate of that magnitude. In America’s short history, we have used the axe at a disproportionately greater rate than the shovel. The chips are scattered under every skyscraper, highway, and dam. How exactly can cost benefit analysis be used to measure the transformation of a thriving forest into cow pasture or a golf course? The mathematician is biased in his or her calculation and is simply shortsighted. The modern perception of the good life is materialistic, and elastic. That ideology pays no heed to evolution or future consequences that result from over consumption, or eradication of certain plants and animals. The axe is simply a byproduct of our manifestation of the good