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INI EGRATING THE OUTER AND THE INNER SPACE : A CHALLENGE TO SCIENCE AND RELIGION ALIKE
• R. P. Misra
This is the age of science. Modern man has the same faith in Science which his ancesters had in religion. The achievements of the era we belong to are indeed marvellous. Science has unravelled the subatomic structure; it has ventured on to exploring the outerspace, the space which is bound by boundless expanse. What man has achieved in a span of just 200 years, is thousands of times more than what he could achieve in several millenia. That way, we are fortunate to be a part in this unfolding of human mind.
But behind the scientific discoveries and technological inventions, lies a great unsuspected and unforseen danger. Humanity has now reached a point of disaster. While the nuclear threat remains unabated, the environmental crises threaten the earth with complete annihilation of all forms of life. There is still time to do something but the moral and ethical crisis that has gripped humanity today will not allow us to face the challenge squarely.
"Man has no chance of survival if knowledge only remains knowledge but if he could transform knowledge into wisdom, he will not only survive, he will be able to ascend to greater and greater heights of achievements", says Bertrant Russell in Hibberts Journal. This paper centres one how to convert this knowledge into wisdom. Limitations of Science
“Science describes facts, objects and phenomena minutely and tries to join them by what we call laws so as
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