In my opinion, the case has to be made separately for each enterprise, since each developed in its own way, with significant aspects reinforced on the basis of the particular roles played by that particular enterprise. Neither shall you claim your neighbour's credibility, and that of his laboratories, his fieldwork, his calculations, his instruments, and anything that is your neighbour's. We have to stand on the basis of our own strength, together with our neighbours. The area of 'science and spirituality' is a rich one. In our cultural context it is not irrelevant which views we will defend nor how we defend them.
Quality is important.
He holds the Nicolette Bruining chair of philosophy of nature and of technology from a liberal protestant perspective at the University of Twente, the Netherlands and works also at the Bezinningscentrum of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Further reading This contribution is a brief version of the second of two Idreos Lectures, given at Harris Manchester College in Oxford, U.K., on May 14 1998. The full text of the lectures will be published by the college later this year.