I don't think the author is trying to destroy anything. Even in maths you find people taking extremely arrogant positions on things. Newton vs Leibnitz, Intuiti

I don't think the author is trying to destroy anything. Even in maths you find people taking extremely arrogant positions on things. Newton vs Leibnitz, Intuitionism vs Logic ... If any the author is warning how passion overrides reason and the biochemical approach is quite empirical.