ABSTRACT
The scientifi c worldview has an impact on values related to what goals are worth pursuing in life and what one ought to do in order to live an ethical life and create an ethical society. Value questions related to what one ought to do to be moral are terribly important in any society and yet science has reduced those questions to the realm of subjectivity . With its emphasis on the material world as the source of true knowledge, science has undermined the status of value in our world. Value statements do not have any kind of objectivity and have been reduced to matters of opinion where there is no scientifi c standard to judge one opinion better than another. Values are seen to be noncognitive in nature, which leaves values fl oating in a never-never land where there is no foundation that would give value statements about what is good in life and what activities one ought to pursue to be a moral person some kind of validity. Science investigates and describes what is and establishes certain facts about our world and there is no way to get from these facts to a determination of what is ethical, from an is to an ought as it is often stated in the literature.
