Have you read Thomas Kuhn?  About paradigms? He make it very clear that 
there is no such thing as objectivity, and that all knowledge systems filter out 
what conflicts with their ideology.
Every knowledge system is ideological and reductionist, including science. 
 
Buddhism is the opposite of feeling that that we are the raison d'etre of 
the universe.  Buddhism is a stance of interconnectivity, transcience, not 
priveleging the human species or any individual. The idea of the separate self 
(such as the migrating baseline) is what Buddhism questions.  There is nothing 
that science has come up with that conflicts with buddhist principles, as far as 
I know (which is little). Indeed, it seems to me that science is discovering 
buddhist principals as it goes. such as complexity and systems.  
why are you so hostile towards buddhist ideas?  What is it that you think 
needs to be demolished?
I totally don't understand what you find so threatening about it.
what is it that most bothers you?
It's weird to me, because science so obviously has massive destructive 
impacts, including all the devastastation that concerns you.  what is the 
destructive impact of buddhism?
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