Poor Worshipping with the Microscope

Decent article at Lew Rockwell about science and religion. Link. Excerpt:

Science can describe vibrations and neural responses but not the "mysterious reality of music." It cannot tell us what we get from a painting or other work of art. Beauty remains mysterious but is very real. The physical world that scientists discover may just exist, may just be there, but it is in the understanding of it by man that its meaning, value and beauty lie. Something real is seen, an insight into the way things are.

The same holds for our ethical intuitions. No matter what the cultural background or what the relativists claim, love is better than hate, truth is better than falsehood, and torturing children is wrong. Religious persecution of any kind is wrong. These are insights into the way things are. Questioning the belief that God exacts infinite punishment for finite sins is a moral advance.