Abstract
There is a common worldview which leads to a two-level understanding of "truth": religion yields personal, subjective values and emotions, while science produces public, neutral, objective, reliable facts. In reality there is no such thing as a neutral search for truth. Everyone works within some worldview, although we are not always conscious of it. Two basic worldviews relevant to our discussion are a naturalistic view and a non-naturalistic view, either of which can exist in more than one version. A worldview is based on a set of assumptions, and these assumptions will have an inevitable influence on the research questions we ask, what we will notice in our research, and what data we collect. The assumptions will also influence, or even strongly control, our interpretations of the data.