Science is responsible for great strides in human culture. Every corner of human existence has been touched and improved by scientific research and advancement. While some scientific advances have proved harmful, most are positive. Everyone reading this is benefiting from the work of scientists. We have come to expect that research will solve all of our problems. As a people we spend billions of dollars annually to fund scientists looking for cures to horrible illnesses. We need science. We trust science.
But science is limited. It does not have all the answers.
Science is self-limited by its own requirements and demands of the scientific method. Scientists formulate broad ideas which are then polished into formal hypotheses for research. Careful observation and testing is required before findings are published. Then other scientists review their work and attempt to duplicate their findings. Only then can their discoveries be proven. It is this rigorous system that locks science into an impenetrable box beyond which they simply cannot move. This does not make science bad. It just limits its ability to answer certain profound questions including those about God and matters of faith.
Science cannot move outside the box because to do so would require fundamental changes in the way science works. Observation is critical. But in matters of the Spirit, observation is largely impossible.
