Modern versus Postmodern Science

I'm seeing this kind of thing more often now. This is lifted from The Postmodern Adventure (see previous post). This author makes a distinction between "modern" science and the type of science that is now developing. According to this type of thinking (and I think they are on to something) the mechanistic science exemplified by Isaac Newton which co-developed with the industrial revolution is giving way to something else, a science characterized as follows:

Many scientists and cosmologists began forsaking modern models of the universe for new paradigms that reject atomistic logic for relational understanding and replace static laws with history and evolution. The new cosmological theories also abandon necessity for contingency, go beyond the logic of simplicity and determinism for new theories of complexity and self-organization, and renounce realism in favor of a hermeneutic approach to scientific understanding. p137

...what is remarkable is the general fact that science, which has done so much to alienate human beings from nature, is now in a position to help reconnect us with the cosmos as it advances ecological and life-sensitive values and challenges modern theories of mechanism, determinism, reductionism, and dualism. p. 139



Could it be that finally, science is now making room for the Spirit?