Hi all,

Some of you might be interested in a book by Lewis Wolpert, The Unnatural Nature of Science, which expands on this point Eric described.

Something else to ponder is *why* our mental processes and the way nature works are such that the scientific method is such a struggle for us. I mean, since we are made of stuff that is operating according to principles we discover through science, why aren't we just directly tuned into those principles? Why do most of our ideas turn out to be wrong, so that we need the scientific method to zero in on the principles that work in describing what happens in nature?

Todd