%0 Journal Article
%T Impact of Science and Scientific Worldview on Man: A Critical Review
%A OM Izunwa
%J OGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%X As it relates to man, the conscious subject of scientific exploits, science could be a positive and/or a negative device in the course of nature. In so far as it rises to the occasion of the imperative of stewardship ¡°till the earth¡±, it remains a good news to man. But when and where it reflects the Cartesian inspiration of turning men into ¡°lords and possessors of nature¡± it constitutes a lethal tool against humanity. Consequently, at the various levels of the physical, intellectual and metaphysical realms, it is not difficult to isolate a plethora of positive constitutions of science as well as an enormity of its disservice to humanity. Indeed, no genuine history and/or records of the world¡¯s progress and civilization can ignore the details and protocols of the scientific method without becoming disreputable. And none can ¡°sanctify¡± all of science¡¯s interventions without turning into a heresy of history. Science had volunteered great bangs in electricity, automobile and computer engineering, informatics and architecture, aeronautic and naval engineering to mention a few. It has provided sundry remedy to diseases through medical researches. Yet it has also bequetted to humanity an ensemble of violence and war, a culture of death and a godless world of unbelief. This essay sings the redemption song of science and men of science, it praises the dominion of science but cautious against a looming sumersualt into a fettered world of violence and death. What it recommends is for the education and repositioning of science back its proper and pristine complementary paradigm of reality. In all, it makes a case for re-rooting science into its Christian origins where the laws of science are but a natural revelation of the ¡°mystery¡± behind the universe, where the inspiration is ¡°to till the earth¡± than ¡°to subdue it¡± and where the ethical perspective of science are prior to the marvel¡¯s of its ¡°actions¡±.
%U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/og/article/view/71766