The Spirituality of Popular Science

Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss how the communication of
science routinely exploits notions of wonder and beauty, and what
this might tell us about how science opens onto wider dimensions
of reality. Does science fiction similarly suggest that science
is grappling with aspects of reality that it can't itself
contain? Why is the experience of wonder and, further, the
so-called supernatural so popular with the public? What is the
hidden metaphysics embedded in popular science, and so perhaps in
science itself?