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The Enlightenment's Attempt to Define Truth Apart From the Biblical Tradition
The postmodernists reject the scientific enterprise as you've been describing it almost completely. Their position then becomes there is no objective truth and that all we can do is describe our own experiences on the basis of power relationships. The enlightenment types went wrong because they didn't understand an ethos that made science possible, he says. He also argues that technologists are making the same problem by trying to solve life's problems with technology.