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The real question here is, can we separate ourselves from what we observe, and the answer is ultimately no. Quantum physics states that the act of observation affects the path of a particle. If this is true in quantum physics then it must be true for all forms of science that in observing something, whether it is the effect of moon phases on animal mating patterns or what have you, we affect the very thing we are observing in various ways. Besides that, no matter how objective we try to be we will always be a product of our environment and everything we observe must pass through the lense of bias that is part of ourselves. There is no person who can exist completely free of bias, whether it is a bias against religion, or a bias for religion, or a bias for an ideology, or a bias against ideology in general. Nothing in this world can or ever will be objective-we live in a subjective world and a subjective universe. Nothing exists independently; everything is connected to everything else. This is a scientific principle. Science is just another ideology, the ideology of objectivity. The truth is there are no objects. Everything in the universe is alive and dynamic. Even the heaviest of matter is a standing wave of energy, a mass of vibrating particles that can be further broken down into other moving things. Even if there is such a thing as true objectivity, we as humans are in no way capable of attaining that, since we are by definition in a constant state of change.

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