| As we start the 21st century, it seems that science has answered all the big questions about the universe. The human mind has conquered the world; there is little left to find. We have staked our claim on the moon and even Mars. We have cracked the genetic code, probed deep space and looked into the origins of the universe. We know how life began and how it continues. We can clone sheep and even humans, making us the creators of life itself. Science is sorted and we are just filling in a few gaps. Or so many people believe. The reality is very different. We may know about the first few seconds after the big bang, but we don't know what banged and why. We have catalogued every single molecule of the body, but we don't know how they become organized. We have taught ourselves about every last part of the machine, but we don't know why it runs. We have been so busy with the tiny pieces that we have lost sight of the big picture. The truth is that the big questions still remain: how did life arise; why did the big bang occur; what is consciousness? If science cannot answer these questions, then effectively we are only just beginning to discover our universe. Furthermore, we are increasingly discovering aspects of our universe that just don't seem to fit our current scientific models. Certain phenomena such as psychic abilities are seen as unscientific. Yet if science has not answered some of basic questions about our universe then how can it be an authority on such issues? As people become more interested in such subjects, the demand grows for an explanation, which science has not provided so far. It is not enough to dismiss these aspects of human experience, when so many people are having them. Clearly science is far from sorted, and there is much to be discovered. ... Originally the scientific quest was no different from the questions that everyone asks of our universe. There was no separation between science, philosophy and mysticism, but a dichotomy eventually occurred. Science emerged as a separate discipline and concerned itself with the physical and the tangible and started to ignore matters of the soul and the mind. The science that we know today, with its objective measurements and mathematics, has really only existed for a few centuries. Its ethos has been to eradicate subjectivity in our way of dealing with the world.... [But] there is a new spirit of science emerging. Those who are at the cutting-edge are reflecting on what science is truly about: a continual adventure of discovery. Science is coming out of the old school and entering the new. The results are astonishing and point the way to a new science of the future. Science is finding its soul. | — Manjir Samanta-Laughton, Punk Science: Inside the Mind of God | Indexes/14 |
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Various issues original scientific pursuit is not enough, we have the space for all who asked. There is no distinction between science, philosophy and mysticism, rather than disagreement, and ultimately occurred. Science emerged as a separate discipline, and their physical and practical concerns expressed, and the heart and soul of the problem began to ignore them.
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