"The Scientific Worldview" is what you get when you use infinity as one of your consuponible fundamental assumptions. It implies that the universe is infinite in extent and eternal, without a beginning and without an end--the opposite of today's absurd assumption that the universe exploded out of nothing. The Big Bang Theory is a creationist theory despite what the conventional wisdom claims. Thus I am with Vine Deloria and Fritjof Capra in observing that many of the assumptions used by today's scientists have much in common with religion. The BBT is part and parcel of the religious milieu within which it evolved. But as I showed in "The Ten Assumptions of Science" (2004) (also as chapter 3 in TSW), many of the the religious assumptions that Deloria and Capra favor are the opposites of deterministic scientific assumptions that make more logical sense. We really don't need "spiritual values" to have respect for the earth--we just need to take good care of it. It is, after all, our home.
Ref:
Capra, Fritjof, 1975, The tao of physics: An exploration of the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism: New York, Bantam Books, 332 p.
Deloria, Jr., Vine, 1988, Custer died for your sins: An Indian manifesto: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 278 p.