Science and the Signs of the Times

Science, a powerful and influential enterprise, affecting even our thinking, cannot be ignored. Its recent inventions and interventions touch the very core of our human identity and dignity. However, the realization of various limits in science, too deep to be solved, show us that we are forced to move beyond ‘scientism’ and revise the very ‘no­ tion’ of science. This paper seeks to discuss the need of looking at sci­ ence from the perspectives of faith, rationality and wisdom. The natural limits in our reasoning capacity and the inability to have access to reality other than our human ways, lead us to see how f a i t h matters in science. The very notion of rationality emerges from the scientific society as there is no one absolute standard framework of rationality to be imposed upon science from somewhere external to it. Since mere logic and reason will not take science too far in the service of humanity, we need wisdom to produce safe and holistic science