ABSTRACT
The popular media and in particular television have played a crucial role in the promotion of the materialistic message. Popularised science can have both high interest and high propaganda content. To study the detailed structure of cartilage an electron microscope is used. The scientific method is really just one way we humans acquire knowledge. This mode of knowing must be recognised with all its inbuilt limitations and prejudices. Modern science has been singularly successful in providing with a 'close-up', lower level view of reality. There is a rich bounty of examples from science that could be used to illustrate the quite spectacular power of the analytical method. Mechanistic science is spectacularly successful in its pursuit of lower level knowledge. The practice of science relies on something outside of science itself. Scientific knowledge, indeed all knowledge, exists because of the human person.
