Each discipline focuses on small pieces of the puzzle. Science has given the student a simple model of the atom.
Personality is explained by intricacies of brain chemistry.
That code was produced by randomly selected gametes in sexual reproduction. Very complex processes are described within the narrow limits of their chemical bonds. Science instruction has done such a complete job of reductionalism that the populace dismisses science as irrelevant to the daily course of affairs. In the late 1970's science teachers were challenged to look at organisms as parts of complex ecosystems. The technology of the nineties has the power to engineer organisms and predict genetic disease, to modify the genetic code and to redesign nature.