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.