"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
So you agree with him as he accurately describes the shortcomings of science and technology, but you disagree with his contention that magic and superstition should be excluded from entering into explanations regarding the physical world?
your bias is showing thru, as you refer to God manifesting himself in our world as magic and superstition. that is hardly open-minded and inquiring, is it?