ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book helps the readers to gain a better understanding of science, of the issues surrounding the subject today, in particular its relation with many current urgent problems. It illustrates the preceding theoretical discourse through multiple examples, ranging from the physical to the life sciences. The book conveys the continuity of science over the ages, and the awe-inspiring beauty of both the scientific theories and of the human minds who have painstakingly devoted their lives to fathom the universe, often at great risk to themselves. It analyses the weaknesses inherent to science, and how these have been conducive to a gradual distortion of science into its exact opposite, a dogmatic faith, and what purpose this serves. The book addresses the reasons behind the current predicament with a focus on the methods employed to occasion this distortion.
