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| The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason |
There are things in the universe we inhabit that we don’t fully understand and things we have yet to discover. Where exactly does this leave us? How exactly are we to come to understand anything? The answer: science. Science is the best tool our species has developed to help determine true things from false things. The best thing about science that it is self-correcting: it acknowledges its flaws and makes an effort to correct them.
For many people, they see this as a deep flaw within science, and therefore reject the whole notion that science can help us answer anything. The problem with this view is that the methods of science have been shown time and again to be the only effective method at discovering the nature of reality. Not prayer; not revelation; not divination: nothing other than hard science.
Yes, humans are the conductors that drive science, and are therefore privy to flaws and biases and all of the others things that make us human. Every scientist has their own little pet theory, and will go to the end of the world to defend it. The best part about science is that this person’s fellow scientists are in the game of disproving competing theories. It takes a lot for someone to change their mind, especially when they’ve dedicated their lives to a theory, but to realize that the evidence runs counter to your belief is what any follower of science must do.
