The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67470   Message #1130841
Posted By: John Hardly
07-Mar-04 - 10:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Faith
Subject: RE: BS: Faith
Said another way (from my previous post), we are so enamored with the technological advances and knowledge explosion provided by science that we seem to have given science "done deal" credit for having already solved the puzzle that is the universe. Our faith is absolute and "religious" (maybe blindly religious) in the potential of science to answer all the questions of the universe.

But Science as a body has acquired a sort of "high priest" status in our modern culture. Very much like the magician/priest of old who held a few tricks (and often a language) secret so that it could continue to derive its power by maintaining popular ignorance, science maintains power by the inherent compexity of data……all the while disguising that it is not the data in question……..it is the conclusions drawn that makes its own "science" not actually science.