Intelligent Critique of Science

[Bhakti Madhava Puri]

Scientific Critique of Science (SCS)

 

We have consistently pointed out that an honest and more modest self appraisal of science already exists. Theories like the Big Bang, Origin of Life, Evolution, etc. are failing under the influence of new evidence and concepts created by the advancement of science itseslf. It is not an atttack on science from without. It is a wholly internal critique of science by scientists according to strict scientific principles - what we are calling the Scientific Critique of Science (SCS).

 

A gullible public, academic and scientific community has naively accepted the hegemony of 19th and 20th century science, which we may call Science-19, and Science-20, but they have not upgraded to the new operating system for the 21st Century, Science-21. Science-21 is a more self-critical version of science that:

 

1. Adopts an attitude of the Scientific Critique of Science, aligning scientific pursuits with the more human, spiritual and moral dimensions of Man.

2. Utilizes access to a more expanded base of modern experimental evidence that challenge the boundaries of dogmatic 20th century science and supports a wider range of conceptual possibilities.

3. Opens up wider vistas for expanding scientific study and research that are now restricted by old-school thought.

 

This will create a more honest approach to science that will more readily expose those who are motivated by a personal subjective agenda that has nothing to do with objective empirical investigation of Nature. It is science, but with the added element of self-critique.

 

It will be nice to have more positive feedback on these ideas, and how they can be implemented, rather than rehashing the same arguments that completely ignore SCS in countless variations.

 

This post is in reply to the recent message sent by JC Das including:

 

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The main problem you will face in your attempt to bring science & religion

together is that science has a very definite atheistic bend to it. In all

its main theories it seems to be trying to establish atheism more than the

truth. With such a mindset being adopted also by those who learn science it

will be difficult to establish the harmony between science & religion unless

you teach people to question science from a scientific point itself . The

people who listen to you now may be doing so despite the science in them.

Its may be that the religious side of their lives is attract to such

discussions. But we need to question science form a scientific pov itself

to show how shaky it is.

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