A flickering light: An unconventional view of Western Science

It is a generally accepted notion that science is a cool dispassionate human endeavor which explicit purpose is to unravel the secrets of Creation, so events could be predicted, manipulated and harness for the betterment of Man and society. To this effect it is necessary to resort to our ‘Reason’, that is, the use of the intellect to discern the hidden components that need to be sorted out to achieve our purpose.

It is common in our culture the belief that the process of ‘ratiocination’ nee...