Science

Abstract

The article discusses the author's views about the nature of science conceived as the enduring power of the idea which is integral, special, even sacred in its integrity. He argues that to dispute the coherent and distinct identity of science is to challenge its unique and coherent value as a normative resource and that is one reason why the idea of a unitary science persists in the absence of any substantial consensus about what such a thing might be. Science speaks most authoratively in the name of reality, reason and truth in which intelligent design and creation science represent themselves as forms of science.