Most people today swear by science; they believe unequivocally in the statements issued by these prophets of reason. But in reality, the genre of science is really only the interpretation of evidence. We don't know what really happened millions of years ago; what we are looking at in distant images of galaxies billions of light years away; what those stone age builders of stone henge or the Machu Pichu were really trying to leave behind for us to find. Neither is everything discovered by science or developed by science an elixir or perfect solution. Everything man made has a side effect; fossil fuels pollute the air and give off green house gases, miracle drugs can cure one thing but bring about something else in its place, and plastic and styrofome pile up in our landfills, non biodegradable, and miracle cleaners and solvents and fertilizers gum up our rivers with cancer causing chemicals. I was greatly impressed with the last scene of Akira Kurasawa's movie, Dreams, in which the old man tells the narrator who comes to the Village of the Water Mills "Scientists might be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. What's worse, most people celebrate their inventions, they look on them as miracles. People need to go back to nature, to live in nature." estory

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