[Restorer]

In one of my grad school courses, we had to read some cultural anthropologists bullsh** drivel about how science is merely another worldview, a Western construct.

Actually, this is a true statement.

Except that the scientific worldview produces actual results (unlike most non-scientifically based worldviews) and can therefore be safely assumed to provide the best available explanation of reality.

It's nice that someone recognizes that science is a Western construct. For a while there I was thinking it was invented in Darkest Africa. :)

[bimbo]

It's nice that someone recognizes that science is a Western construct.

Only through Science and Technology, Western Civilization came to be the dominant culture of the world. 400 years ago, all cultures were more or less equally dominant.

[Anamensis]

Well, this author's point was "Why should we consider scientific thought any more authoritative than, say, Cherokee mythology?"