We are even beginning to get a handle on how to keep our planet healthy. Nay, not just turning away, but fleeing in the opposite direction. The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old and Harvard psychiatrist John Mack's Abduction . There is James Van Praagh, Talking to Heaven , while Neale Walsch is having Conversations with God. It's not surprising.
Evolution is a slow business.
We are all saddled with genes selected for life in a Pleistocene wilderness. In a time before science, there was no gene for scientific thinking, and there still isn't. It must be learned. As the physicist Richard Feynman put it, science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. But none of us think scientifically all the time.