Formulas built in Myth (Mary Midgley)

[Tetro Kornbluth]

God Bless Mary Midgley. We need more like her (though I am a bit dissapointed by her vagueness at the end).

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/aug/15/einstein-darwin-mary-midgley

[jokerman]

The only mistake of this article, perhaps (although I only skimmed), is to presume that the myth proceeded the scientific entity.  Often it is the reverse.  Each culture and civilization tends to develop a unique scientific culture, vocabulary, and set of concepts from preexisting constructs, often developed by the original method of viewing the world: religion.  Thus the "force" concept or the "field" concept which so distinguish the greatness of Western science were first pioneered by late Midieval scholaticists with their new conception of God.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The only mistake of this article, perhaps (although I only skimmed), is to presume that the myth proceeded the scientific entity.  Often it is the reverse.  Each culture and civilization tends to develop a unique scientific culture, vocabulary, and set of concepts from preexisting constructs, often developed by the original method of viewing the world: religion.  Thus the "force" concept or the "field" concept which so distinguish the greatness of Western science were first pioneered by late Midieval scholaticists with their new conception of God.

I would agree with this (except that I would replace "religion" with "traditional cosmology" or something similiar. It makes more sense when one is referring to Chinese science or even Indian science to a degree.)