ABSTRACT
The astronomer Carl Sagan once predicted that a religion inspired by scientific knowledge of the universe would eventually emerge to rival the traditional faiths. Rather than write off religion, scientific humanism must confront religion's power if it hopes to turn it to nobler ends, Edward O. Wilson advises. The conviction that the scientific narrative inspires the "awe", "majesty" and "sense of wonder" and that these feelings will in turn motivate environmental concern is taken further in some of Goodenough's work apart from Loyal Rue. Rue's project of creating a new global myth, or what he calls "everybody's story", includes blueprint for educational reform drawn from the consilient unity of knowledge. Knowledge, in putting to rest the questioning impulse, warrants the ultimate prize, the highest form of wonder. All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.
