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Personally, I don't resist the epistemic authority of science operating in its proper field. That is not the same thing as saying that all of reality reduces to that authority. Science treats of "physical" things. Period. The other branch of the epistemic divide treats of spiritual things -- things of vital importance to man like language, history, the arts, philosophy, theology, and so forth. Science has zero purchase there. Yet scientistic ideologues claim that, since science can't deal with such things owing to its own methodological limitations, such things must not exist.
This is a tremendous leap of faith (or counter-faith) on their part -- a leap that extinguishes all that is of utmost value to human kind, and what makes man distinctive.

Meanwhile, man stubbornly continues to be what he is: "psyche in soma," an embodied spiritual being.

Very well said. Thank you so much for your excellent post!

The evos responses in this thread give evidence of the crippling effects of pride. For in essence, all of their arguments against the article and its author can be boiled down to this: "Rather than accept our Creator, we (evos) prefer to be soulless pointy-eared anthropoids---sans free will and conscience." And they seem to be oblivious to the entirety of implications contained within their "feely-chosen" position.

Ah well, Screwtape certainly knows his business, which is why he always holds his lures out to conceit.