Let
us not shoot the messenger. Science like every other field of human activity
has its strengths and weaknesses. There is nothing wrong with science as such.
Its
strengths have helped human beings evolve rationally much faster; helped shed many
irrelevant superstitions; enhanced the emphasis of empirical evidence over
scriptural authority or blind beliefs etc.
It does not mean that science has unraveled all that is there to be
known, nor is it a panacea for all human problems, nor does it mean that any
other means of explaining and discovering life and its activities are wrong
etc.
But
when science itself clutches on to some not so sound and fool proof means to
explain or substantiate its claims; when scientists supply theories purely to support
industry and politics and scientific research is subjected to too much of politics
then everything needs to be corrected because the whole edifice of modern
perception is swayed by scientific approval as a few centuries ago it was
religious sanction that held sway.
Science
by itself cannot settle disputes with axiomatic certitude it is more useful at
unsettling blind beliefs and help humans to explore and experiment with an open
mind.
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
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