ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book addresses several important issues. Firstly, the knowledge and insights gained using the tools of scientific enquiry, however sophisticated they might be, will always be fundamentally limited. Secondly, although science is ultimately limited in the insights it can provide, it does point to a dimension that clearly transcends the processes and systems in nature that this science so successfully describes. Thirdly, in considering the living world, we find that even the simplest organism demands an explanation that cannot be expressed in terms of only the impersonal processes of nature. It reflects the age-old problem that human beings have always struggled with a desire to remain the leader of the expedition rather than be led by the 'One' who might take the scientist into territory that cannot be charted by the instruments of his or her own profession.
