Why we need a new Science You are standing quietly in the woodland below a majestic beech tree. It is autumn and the leaves resonate in magnificent colour before they are released into the air and succumb to the earth.
Mosses flow over the rocks of the forest floor like rippling water under the sea.
The air is rich and moist with decaying bracken which has fallen in broken heaps of burnt orange and burgundy. You can almost feel the earth churning with life under your feet. This is precisely what science tells us today. As we fly through this age of information flow, genetics and molecular technology, people are becoming increasingly alienated from a meaningful understanding of the natural world. Science has been vigilant in its interrogation of the natural world to wrest answers from her depths of mystery.