Science

Like religion or government, science is an established set of rules.  These rules have changed over time.  What was once known by scientist to be truth has either been disproven or challenged.  Most of science is just the passing on of knowledge.  The majority of us have done science experiments to show that the knowledge is true.  If the experiment doesn’t result in the desired outcome, we justify it as either our own lack of abilities or some unseen variable.  For the most part, we have faith that the laws of science are true.  We also have total faith in scientists.  We believe they know more or in some way have all the answers.  We believe that they have the greater good at heart.  In most ways, we believe in science and scientist like we do the government and religions.  Some have said that science is the new religion.

So why does science change?  Does the environment or physics change?  Have we just learned more? Why can’t science explain everything?  Why are some theories unprovable?  Once again, we are told to just have faith.  Most of science is a form of reasoning.  We make observations of the things we see around us and create a theory about why it happened. If the same thing happens more than once, we deduct that we have enough evidence that our theory is correct.  Once again, is the theory true or did it happen because we believed it happened?  As soon as one scientist doesn’t believe that a theory is true, they usually discover a way to disprove it.  Does this mean that it was never true?  Does it mean that simply by the act of not believing, it changes how we see the world around us?  Is it truth or is truth what we choose to believe in?