What is called “science” today behaves exactly like the church did before the Rennaissance.
It is even more hypocritical, for it takes positions of theory and presents them as absolute, incontrovertible fact. It stands that its understanding is unassailable.
And yet, every year, science itself discovers that hundreds of its positions on fact - are, in fact - wrong! It continually, with new information, discovers where it has been totally wrong in its positions and views.
And yet - it is never humbled by its new discoveries that disprove previous “truths”. It never “repents” of having taught that which it learns is not true. It forever maintains its arrogance that its current views are absolute.
True science is always admitting it may be wrong. It is not like math, where 2 + 2 always = 4. It tests, retests, and retests - and is open to new discovery.
That today’s science is absolute on its current understandings proves that it is far more like a cultic religion than true science. It condemns, criticizes and condemns opponents to its views in no less a degree than the church of the Inquisition.
Former public shool science teacher......
Excellent post - especially the part about how dogmatic "science" is never humbled...
For someone who claims to have been a public school science teacher, you show absolutely no understanding of what a scientific theory is. In science, a theory is the framework that provides the logical framework for the observed data. It both explains existing data and provides a framework in which to devise testable hypotheses. Theories are always being refined over time as new evidence is revealed by hypothesis testing--that is how science works. The fact that a theory is constantly being updated does not mean it is wrong.