Description: How scientific discoveries change world-views. An intellectual history in the words of scientists, philosophers and historians.
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... together they can form a coherent world-view
At some time in their lives thinking people require an explanation of the world and their place in it. There seems to be a deep human need to have something that can help form our relationship to experience in a meaningful way. Questions like "What is life all about?" or "Why am I here?" insistently arise to plague us. They drive us to form a personal worldview. Without it one feels "a stranger in a strange land."
A rational worldview should be coherent and be faithful to experience. It can only be faithful to experience if it does not contradict scientific knowledge about our world. Indeed a modern rational worldview needs to incorporate scientific knowledge.