Fascinating! Imagine such conversation: Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Tolkien: "Yes! Because it IS! magic."

Fascinating! Imagine such conversation: Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Tolkien: "Yes! Because it IS! magic." Clarke looking baffled at the response and trying to explain it to himself on the latest round of ale ("welp, it's still the 1st round, it's going to be a long night"). The problem with scientific framework is that it takes man out of the equation and than tries to say that this is all there is (science is not good nor bad, just is, right?). Yet for all the progress we were given in the last three centuries a lot of bad came out of it too. Yet we can't blame it on the science because we can't have the holistic worldview from scientific standpoint.