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The planet earth and the creatures that live upon it have existed for Billions of years. A monkey neither knows nor cares that man has walked on the moon nor landed a vehicle on Mars. So who does science benefit, but Human beings. Science is for the benefit of Human perception and human perception alone, and in that sphere of perception it is merely a tangential enterprise since other realms of perception exist. Since science serves humans in a material world and not humans serving science it is the human being and his perceptions that are important. Science has become of obsolete the minute that man exploded an atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico. For at that moment man could with an instant of impulsive behavior wipe himself off the face of the earth. So what becomes of ultimate importance in that environment, but self awareness to better understand man's own impulsive behavior.