frozen_water
Science is the new Religion.
Or so it's been said anyway. People have increasingly turned from their antiquated religions to take up the reigns of science and it's "objective" revelations.
The idea of science seems to be that it accumulates facts and slowly progresses closer to real truth. This idea has it's issues though. To begin with how can we know science is progressing towards "truth" if we don't have any way of defining truth on it's own.
What we see as true is most often defined in terms of what we can observe and measure, AKA science.
The problem is not that Science is bad, I think it's a beautiful subject which helps us find some clarity in our thoughts and beliefs, however people seem to put too much faith in science as some infallible "god" as it were. They view science as the final word, without questioning whether or not the very nature of science prevents it from being objective. It's important to realize that science like any other field is wrought with issues of human subjectivity and error, as it all requires some level of interpretation and analysis.
Science is subjective just like any other field, so society's impassioned elevation of science onto a god-like pedestal is not so far from the nature of any other religion. So yes, I suppose Science is the new religion, I wonder how long it will take for people to become disillusioned with it as well?
Exactly what do you mean by Science? Social Science, Physical Science, all science?
Because their isn't just one type of science. And you can't approach each science in the same fashion. And each category may have subcategories that are approached differently.
I mean, you don't approach biology the same way you do physics. You also can't approach microbiology the way you do macrobiology.
Science can be objective. And sometimes science is theoretical.
But I think that it is just human nature for us to want to put our faith in something. In some cases what we know as scientific truth is just that. It's facts backed up by consistent data and continued research.You can see and touch it, or at least observe and capture it.
For instance, microbes, can't be seen with the naked eye. But we know they exist and are living and nonliving things that we can capture, observe, and manipulate. The discovery of microbes opened our eyes. Before we were ignorantly thinking that sin caused us to get sick. Or other ridiculous philosophies and we thought leeches or purification was the fix to everything. Now that we know about microbes, some people put all their faith into vaccination and immunization and antibiotics.