"In 100 years, our vision of science will be laughed at".
January 8, 2011 at 4:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2011 at 4:32 pm by Rwandrall.)
This is an argument i've heard a lot, mostly from sane-ish christians that say science is not always right. I will use the word "science" here as a general term characterizing mankind's knowledge and understanding of the Universe.
Tons of very renowned scientists assured the public that the Car, the Television, the Computer would be fashion inventions that had no future.
200 years ago, scientists assured that there was no way humans would ever go faster than 30 mph.
Going further back, 2000 years ago our understanding of the universe was very primal and in a way childish.
What's to say that 2000 years from now, all of our theories and laws will not be looked upon as childish and ignorant by our descendants ? They work for now, but how can we take them so seriously when in the future we are likely to realize how silly and ignorant we were ?
The link to Religion is that Science being not "credible' because the knowledge we now have, including Darwinian theory, is probably going to be obsolete down the road, its incompatibility with religious texts does not matter.
Tons of very renowned scientists assured the public that the Car, the Television, the Computer would be fashion inventions that had no future.
200 years ago, scientists assured that there was no way humans would ever go faster than 30 mph.
Going further back, 2000 years ago our understanding of the universe was very primal and in a way childish.
What's to say that 2000 years from now, all of our theories and laws will not be looked upon as childish and ignorant by our descendants ? They work for now, but how can we take them so seriously when in the future we are likely to realize how silly and ignorant we were ?
The link to Religion is that Science being not "credible' because the knowledge we now have, including Darwinian theory, is probably going to be obsolete down the road, its incompatibility with religious texts does not matter.
