I was more focused on the goal of their social engineering (secularism) rather than the means (modelling) but your comment really puts the two together. Their faith in modelling (which is essentially a reduction of the complexity of the universe into a simplistic cartoon) is directly connected to their embrace of secularism.
“I was more focused on the goal of their social engineering (secularism) rather than the means (modelling) but your comment really puts the two together. Their faith in modelling (which is essentially a reduction of the complexity of the universe into a simplistic cartoon) is directly connected to their embrace of secularism.”
You are so right. The two are so connected.
Atheism is bound up with a securlar belief in “reason” as the ultimate truth, and yet how can reason and logic explain ultimate truth of the universe unless that universe is based (created/designed) on a higher reason and logic (which the secular atheist thinks he/she can reach), and yet how can THAT be if NOTHING is behind it all.