i don't think science really has a mindedness in that sense personally. it's just a general means of answering a specific breed of philosophical question with empirical evidence, concrete data, and exact figures. there's not really room for mindedness because it seeks to act in a purely objective manner; though individual pursuits may vary in motive
If you want to talk about the the perception that science has in modern society, there's the
ideal view of science, which one may think is objective and seeking concrete resolution before any further conclusions can be made. And then there's the
exhibitive view of science, in which which one may extrapolate evidence to gain a presumptuous conclusion.
That being said, to discover a virus, figure out any harmful symptoms, and then to develop a vaccine for it is a clean cut way to gather evidence and draw it all together to arrive at a conclusion. This is the ideal view. Science in this way is very much active and progressive in development.
However, it is my opinion that the vast majority of evolutionary theory is garbage. The reason why is because, as I said in the exhibitive view, as the name suggests, the field has become about show—It is a
tabloid science. Researchers in this field are sooner to find evidence that something may exist X many years ago and draw conclusions that A and B species interacted in a certain way. Many but not all will reject any alternatives just so they can hold onto any academic recognition they may get. The fact of the matter is: We don't
know the history of the Earth and the Universe. "What is our origin?" is a question very philosophical in nature. And like the church in modern society has no place in politics, science has no place in the realm of philosophy.
