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Title: Church of the Holy Horror?
Review: This book underscores, with unconscious precision, the fallacies of intellectual life in the late twentieth century. In a series of revealing profiles of top scientists, Horgan unwittingly exposes the link between a common scientific worldview and Horgan's own jaded attitude. Horgan does not seem to grasp how much he has in common with his interview subjects! His cosmic reverie at the end of the book, flat on his back on a suburban lawn, mirrors the scientific impasse. In the vision, Horgan recapitulates the entire history of the scientific revolution (growing insight, seemingly unlimited power, hubris, cosmic aloneness, etc.). As put by Conway Morris, the idea that human destiny is entirely mundane may be the most peculiar error of the moderns. The End of Science is symptomatic of that error.
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