In this century that gave us gas chambers, hydrogen bombs and biological weapons, it's not unreasonable that a lot of people are afraid of science. And fundamentally, the fear is that our ability to do scary things has outstripped our moral capacity to refuse to do them. The Holocaust could not have been carried out without scientific efficiency applied to a diabolical purpose. The Bomb is here to stay, so to speak. Even if we could go back to some primitive state of nature, most of us wouldn't want to.
Science is just a tool, one that be used wisely or foolishly.
Far from being at war with science, these other ways of knowing are essential to our being able to deal with all the scary possibilities that modern science raises. This has implications regarding who shall live and who shall die to control demand on our resources. There is tremendous effort underway to find the gene or genes that are commonly found among long-lived people, and some of these efforts appear to be close to success. In fact, genetic treatments have proved darned tricky, because inmost cases you would have to get the genes injected into trillions of cells all over the body. I'd like to make a different point to the questioner from Pennsylvania.