Marcus Borg on scientific worldview
Historian Marcus Borg, in a book he coauthored with N. T. Wright, The Meaning of Jesus, describes a prevailing scientific worldview as the “worldview of mass culture in the West” and how it works:
Like all worldviews, it functions in our minds almost
unconsciously, affecting what we think possible and what we pay
attention to. It is especially corrosive to religion. It reduces reality
to the space-time world of matter and energy, thereby making the notion
of God problematic and doubtful. It reduces truth to factuality, either
scientifically verifiable or historically reliable facts. It raises
serious doubts about anything that cannot be accommodated within its
framework, including religious phenomena such as prayer, visions,
mystical experiences, extraordinary events, and unusual healings.