What Is Fundamentalism?

In the history of science, Newtonian physics was just so successful that it made reductionism attractive. By the time I learned biology in school, the status of that subject had changed to the opposite of what Aristotle thought was obvious. Life was not considered to be fundamental at all. The very term nature study, meaning biology, had become an anachronism. Fundamentally, nature was physics. This is common knowledge in a way. In fact, there is an even an XKCD cartoon that is quite famous. And it has the whole sequence laid out there, the whole hierarchy of science,. If you like. On the far left, we have sociologists. Then moving