From New Perspectives Quarterly:

The role of the scientific imagination in shaping
the world to come is today uncertain as the great leaps forward . . .
have revived old doubts and raised new fears about the human condition
under the regime of reason. . . science is under attack both from
religious extremists on the right who argue stem-cell research violates
the sanctity of life as well as from "post-intelligent intellectuals"
of the academic left who view science not as the discovery of objective
reality through observation, but as a "social construction."

At the same time, new paradigms pose the possibility of a
reconciliation between the humanities and hard science, perhaps even a
new convergence of humankind and technology. Reconciliation begins by
engaging the deepest level of critique.

The late poet and Nobel laureate, Czeslaw Milosz, often voiced his
concern that the modern scientific worldview had excommunicated from
society the reverence for being at the core of all traditional
religions. . .

. . . In the 21st century, the scientific imagination is well on its
way to healing this rift. The late Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine has
demonstrated that creativity in nature leads, through infinite
bifurcations or decision points, to an unforetold plurality of
possibilities, not a predestined fate for man or molecule. There are
objective laws and structures, to be sure, but there is also choice.
Those choices, in society and nature, affect outcomes in complex
interactions within everchanging structures in which everything is
related to everything else. . .

. . .  Milosz would be happy to see the haiku and the double helix coming together again in mindful science.

Worth reading in its entirety.

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