Limitations of Science

Scientists as a class have always remained protected in their laboratories and chambers, aloof & exempt from dishonesty. In other words, they kept a safe distance from falsehood and fake information.

Science, among all other fields, has been regarded as the ultimate meeting ground for seekers of truth. The dazzling technological achievements of modern science have given it an aura of infallibility.

But sadly there is a twist in the tale of honesty. In recent times, scientists in key positions of academic, industrial, and government institutions have shown that they too are capable of mixing personal beliefs and ambitions with their research, thus altering the results.

When this happens, we are no longer dealing with a search for truth but with a pseudoscience and its resultant array of distortions, fabrications, and false information.

Unfortunately, this non-scientific method has been applied to the most fundamental & sensitive field of scientific inquiry namely “the nature and origin of life”. Not surprisingly when scientists present untested and unproven speculations about the origin of life, people tend to fully accept them with blind faith, because of the mystery surrounding the existence of life.

Some scientists popularise the notion that a human being is merely a conglomeration (bundle) of unconscious molecules. But they cannot explain how mere molecules can display emotions, can experience joy upon seeing loved ones, or feel disturbed by the sad & tragic events.

I read somewhere that there is one subtle and classic exhibit at the famous Los Angeles Museum of Natural History which displays a number of flasks and beakers. Each contains one of the chemicals found in the human body. The caption explains that although these chemicals represented all the contents of a human body in correct weight and proportion, they could not be considered “Life”, nor could any amount of scientific manipulation & jugglery bring them to life !

Today many scientists are propagating the theory that life originates from matter. Popular works and textbooks in the west opine that life arose gradually from chemicals which they term as a “primordial soup” consisting of amino acids, proteins, and other essential ingredients. However, science cannot provide proof or evidence of this “misplaced notion” either experimentally or even theoretically. In fact these ambitious scientists hold their stance essentially on faith and wishful thinking !

The question to be asked is, “where & how did the chemicals come from in the first place” ? It has been clearly demonstrated by information theory that even a single informational molecule such as cytochrome could not have arisen by chance or by natural means in the estimated lifetime of the earth (then what to speak of complex organisms).

It has also been concluded recently by couple of experts in the field of Physical sciences that “a scenario describing or depicting the genesis of life on earth by chance due to combination of molecules or from matter which are truly based on concrete facts and not faith, has not yet been deduced & written.”

Bottom line :

● Life cannot be reduced to atoms and molecules and matter is incapable of generating life in any form without the living force or spirit.

● Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a “spirit” is manifested in the laws of the universe which is vastly superior, so much so that we beings with our modest powers, must feel overawed & humbled !

● Life has not originated from super-molecules ; Life has not originated from matter ; Life has not originated on account of extraterrestrial collisions ; Life has originated from ……… Super Life !