ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ideas, explanations and theories from a wide range of disciplines, as apply to scientific theories and practices. It also discusses all the threads together in a unified way. Not all the threads are as different from each other as they first appear but refer to similar situations seen from alternative viewpoints. Scientists bask in the new technological Atlantis, oblivious to the mismatch between quantum mechanics and general relativity – the two most prominent physical theories – and revel in the fact that the nature of most of the matter in the Universe is anybody's guess. Science is part of culture and area where there is a healthy interchange of ideas is literature. Religion and science intertwined for centuries in a cultural, social and political melee that has not always been uneventful or beneficial. The simple attitude, shared by many scientists, is that fact and faith do not mix; therefore, religion has nothing to do with science.
