quest for an understanding of human experience rooted in worship, hope and the history of holiness represented by the great religious figures of world history. Science limits itself to treating the world as an object, which can be manipulated and put to the experimental test. Religion is concerned with personal encounters, which can only be treated as their own reality. The scientific testing has to give way to trusting in the unforeseen. There are many questions, which arise from science but which go beyond its narrow power to answer, which seem to many of us to point in a religious direction. Scientists are extremely impressed by the wonderful rational beauty of the physical world as it becomes revealed through their investigations. Science is possible because the universe is a creation, and we are made in the image of the creator. (Omni p4) Body-soul dualism resides as the core of our culture. The majority of Americans believe the in an immaterial self that comes into the being whole and entire conception and survives the physical erosion of the body. It is extremely enjoyable to believe that we reside at the link of a chain of material creation. Science instead offers, a speck of self, formed from cosmic dust in a meaningless world. (3) Science is not going to go away. It is far too fruitful a way of knowing to be denied by human curiosity. Even if driven underground from its established position, it will survive. There is little chance that science will be suppressed by the dominant culture; it is way to useful. Who is prepared to turn over their medical and technological establishments to revivalists. The source of our intellectual malaise is not science but our lingering commitment to a philosophical dualism that has proven to be scientifically insolvent; therefore, the tension between our way of knowing and our way of believing. Scientific truth says there is no such thing as a disembodied self. H...
