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**layevymed** · 01-27-2009, 04:41 PM

Science is the exploration of the "why" behind every "what".

It is what I love and live on. What I crave every time I hear something or learn something.

Science is also the mirror that when held up to the general public, lets them know plain and simple how little they know about their own world. And whet people do not know, they fear.

People then make up stories, some fearsome, some comforting, to explain what they do not know in terms their own mind can comprehend. Boats fall off the edge of the earth and the stars are either holes in a celestial blanket OR manifestations of the gods themselves as they watch over us. We get patron saints, benefactors, prophets. Jesus and Mohamed.

We get the universe to obey a giant anthropomorphic regal Deity that tells everything how to work based on a knowledge that "he" possesses.

And then man starts making up explanations for all the little things. From gravity to evolution. They use this omnipotent benefactor as the ineffable incontrovertible truth and virtue that proves their story as absolute and unquestionable.

And then along comes science. Bot the complicated and the simple. Things that explain what is happening and are hard to refute on any logical grounds. Science peels back the Dietal membrane enveloping all that people feel comfortable hiding underneath it. It exposes pieces that were erroneously associated to a divine guidance and in our own weakness of faith, we are unable to accept this as it brings into question all the other things that it now covers, whether they truly belong there or not.

As many have experienced. Logic never truly wins over emotion. Logic needs to use emotion to become the truth in someones heart and mind. We are more amenable to being sold to than taught. Comforted rather than educated. "Protected" rather than enlightened.

Until we, as a species, evolve beyond some of the mechanisms that kept us alive in the wild, the "something feels funny" that told us subconsciously to start running before we even saw the wolves. Until we can shed, or at least separate that from our logical being, we will always have the tenacious and inarguable position of "just because" to deal with.

And science, as well as those that follow it, will always bear this intangible aura of fear and malevolence in never truly earned.

01-27-2009, 04:41 PM	#2
layevymed Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	Science is the exploration of the "why" behind every "what". It is what I love and live on. What I crave every time I hear something or learn something. Science is also the mirror that when held up to the general public, lets them know plain and simple how little they know about their own world. And whet people do not know, they fear. People then make up stories, some fearsome, some comforting, to explain what they do not know in terms their own mind can comprehend. Boats fall off the edge of the earth and the stars are either holes in a celestial blanket OR manifestations of the gods themselves as they watch over us. We get patron saints, benefactors, prophets. Jesus and Mohamed. We get the universe to obey a giant anthropomorphic regal Deity that tells everything how to work based on a knowledge that "he" possesses. And then man starts making up explanations for all the little things. From gravity to evolution. They use this omnipotent benefactor as the ineffable incontrovertible truth and virtue that proves their story as absolute and unquestionable. And then along comes science. Bot the complicated and the simple. Things that explain what is happening and are hard to refute on any logical grounds. Science peels back the Dietal membrane enveloping all that people feel comfortable hiding underneath it. It exposes pieces that were erroneously associated to a divine guidance and in our own weakness of faith, we are unable to accept this as it brings into question all the other things that it now covers, whether they truly belong there or not. As many have experienced. Logic never truly wins over emotion. Logic needs to use emotion to become the truth in someones heart and mind. We are more amenable to being sold to than taught. Comforted rather than educated. "Protected" rather than enlightened. Until we, as a species, evolve beyond some of the mechanisms that kept us alive in the wild, the "something feels funny" that told us subconsciously to start running before we even saw the wolves. Until we can shed, or at least separate that from our logical being, we will always have the tenacious and inarguable position of "just because" to deal with. And science, as well as those that follow it, will always bear this intangible aura of fear and malevolence in never truly earned.
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