If you credit these things magically to science you are wrong. Ever single piece of these things derive from the work people put into it, not science. People make these things happen, not science. Nothing is ever created without the work and creative power of even the seemingly least of us.
If you were to attribute anything the way you do to science, then you have to thank it for the pollution in the air, food, water, the nuclear bomb and a lot of other things, too. You could say Chernobyl or Seveso or Bopal was caused by science, too.
Science simply has not made people happier. That was my point. Do you think a car, TVs, prozac, central heating, the ability to take a flight to another continent have made people happier or spiritually more fulfilled? I don't think so.
Why do you think it is that a lot of people are unhappy having all these things, working the threadmill to obtain them, and impressing the Joneses and so on? And why do you think other people chose to go to a monastery and meditate their way to enlightenment facing a wall?
Because spirituality has answers to these questions that pertain to a deeper level of our being than science can be aware of. I agree with OlderWiser, there is a point beyond which the scientific method is missing the point entirely.
And I repeat my statement about cowardly attitudes, because you did miss the point. I'm not impressed by the hard work. A lot of jobs require hard work. An air traffic controller at an airport has to be more present than the thinker, for example.
Very few scientists actually dare to think outside the paradigm, and this still is to me cowardly and overly conservative. This view is shared by many more creative thinkers that outgrew this limitation. Like it is often said: The new idea will win the minds over when the proponents of the old idea have died out.
Oliver
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