In this case of science versus scholarship, the jury is still out.
Not because science and religion are unalterably opposed, but because religious thinkers succumbed to a fatal case of science envy.
The real case of science fiction here is Ms. Driver's Grace, who has apparently been unable to get a date, ever.
Comparing the TIMSS scores with the findings of smaller international studies carried out in the 1960s and 1970s suggests that British pupils have got worse at maths and better at science.School inspectors have found that the introduction of the national curriculum, with its detailed lists of what should be learnt, has in the case of science led to more focused lessons.
However, as in the case of science more generally, philosophical textualists emerged as a distinct social group from the fang shi, especially.
Members of the first group are those "initiated"—priests and theologians in the case of religion; artists and art critics in the case of art; scientists in the case of science etc.
In the case of science the community of experts operates according to the norm of objectivity, the purpose of which is to guide scientific inquiry and justify its claims to communal epistemic authority.
Unlike the case of science, where the practical consequences of entertaining a particular theory are not taken into consideration, the context of discovery in technology is governed by severe constraints of time and money, and an analysis of the problem how best to proceed certainly seems in order.
Both organizations, apparently suffering from a bad case of science envy, are desperately calling for science to be redefined to include the supernatural.
Two, a culture of discrete publications (vs. living knowledge and data sets) whereby people are primarily judged by traditional processes dating back, in the case of science, a couple hundred years.
