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Originally Posted by supernova1965
....I would have thought on an astronomy forum science would rule instead we are having arguments on ideology and beliefs instead of facts. Its time to let the facts speak up.  |
When did anyone ever let the facts get in the way of the truth??
One man's facts are another man's fallacies.
Facts only become truths when everyone can see their inevitability.
Science has come under attack because it has failed to offer the average person any comfort in inevitability. However, it has also been horribly misrepresented by those people who have a vested interest in it....the scientists. We are not paragons of all knowledge, nor are we custodians of the arcane. We are not high priests either, but to see how many scientists react to criticism and the way they conduct themselves, you'd think otherwise. Although, the people have to carry the can as well. They are just as guilty of expecting too much from scientists and putting them into the positions of "high priests". Science has become a religion in many respects, which is something it was never meant to be. When a religion fails to sate the concerns of the average person, it becomes abandoned or ignored. That's what's happening to science. It's been put in a position it should never have, nor has any business to have, occupied.