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Vice President Al Gore '69 and Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel are but two political leaders who have realized the bias in science and are now looking to alternatives to the scientific world order...
...Havel, for one, is a strong critic of the universality of modern science. At a speech in Philadelphia's Independence Hall last summer, Havel said, "Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less...
...Havel said that because scientific observation could not be done objectively, science can only mislead in its attempts to explain the definitive nature of the universe...
...book Vaclav Havel, or Living in Truth, Havel is quoted as saying science "kills God and takes his place on thevacant throne so that....science would be the solelegitimate arbiter of absolute truth...
...Havel suggests that under the guise ofobjectivity, science steals the inexplicablewondrous nature from the human soul and leaves agaping hole in its wake...