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Introduction I just finished reading the four book series by Gene Wolfe known as The Book of the New Sun, along with its sequel, The Urth of the New Sun. It is the story of a young man’s journey of growth and redemption that takes place tens of thousands of years in the future, in a time when knowledge of our current time is almost completely lost. The books are very challenging to read, partly because the world is so foreign to us, but also because it is told by the protagonist in the first person, and he’s not always good about giving us all the details we need to understand things easily....

A popular saying today is “follow the science,” which implies that it is science that will show us the correct path in life, and a person is wise who follows its guidance. I believe that science is a very powerful tool that helps us understand many of the mechanisms of our universe, but I also maintain that there are many mysteries of life that science alone will never penetrate, and science alone is insufficient to provide the wisdom we need to live a good life....