Do we believe in science, and how much do we believe it?

Science has evolved over hundreds of years, developing even further in each of its areas at every new discovery, it has moved from the aegis of Galileo to the great Albert Einstein. It’s true that science does not ever prove anything right but it uses strong evidence to back up its probable outcome, giving us humans the best known answer to the questions we all ask. Its has developed through this structure over the past century allowing us to treat many areas in medicine and aid in finding the answers to big questions like, how we got her and how did it begin and why we are the way we are? The claims that science has made have no sufficient evidence to prove that there are any relations between its beliefs and the true physical form, but it is strongly probable in many areas. For example, in the chemistry side of science, it claims that charcoal or the element C (carbon) sticks to soluble substances and aids in the Filtration, this is when the carbon atoms holds onto to the atom of the soluble substance and can therefore filer it out and returning the natural substance to its original color. Although this action does occur, there is no evidence that the claims that science has made and the actual occurrence or practical have any relation but it is only probable.

These claims and scientific discoveries have aid advances in biological studies, through medicine and technologies, using these theories humans have been able to travel through space, split the an atom and clone living organisms. But in amongst it all there is much ambiguity, science in the other hand cannot be trusted, and placing to much faith in it may lead to a fatal mistake. This human founded study like everything else is not 100% accurate; this is also why scientific claims can be said to be based on the Pragmatic theory of truth. It is based on experiments and practicals and can differ from person to person, not to mention age and time of which the experiment took play. An early example oft his was the idea of the world being flat, this was accepted widely for hundreds of years, this was used to explain missing people at sea. They believed that the boats had sailed off the face of the edge of the earth, and at that time it was seen as logical and justified, but was then proved wrong by Christopher Columbus. Although we have revolutionized  over that large period, this is still a clear example of why science cannot be trusted, our method today may seem logical and probable, but what about tomorrow and the next day, how do we know that what we claim to be true will last and does the ‘pragmatic theory’ have an expiration date? These are the question that should be thought over well before placing too much ‘trust’ in science.

It is true that scientific claims and explanations may have some ambiguity but it is only due to our lack of understanding that our knowledge is probable, therefore we must trust and place our faith in it in order to go on. Without using this probable information we as humans will cease to developed and advance, that is why scientific claims although uncertain are followed in order to find some sort of satisfaction to mans question whether the answer be certain or not. The cons are clearly outweighed in that there is too much dependence in this field of study, such as medicine and technology, relying on information that was only probable but proved to be successful.

Without science the human race would not be able to go on, but in order to use this information that science gives us we must trust in it, but at the same time understand that it’s a matter of probability and has many uncertain areas. The reason why people believe in science so much is because it is being based on uncertain fact but still mange to be successful. Many chose to place there faith in it, other chose alternative paths, but either way they are always questionable. Not everything can be permanent especially theory because the world is getting older, people are always growing, and science will inevitably change. As the great man himself once said "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible…As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality”            -Albert Einstein-