Why don't people trust science?

Question

All science does is uncover the mysteries of the universe. It's self-correcting and is always evolving. Once something is proven true by careful observations by science, then it is true. For example, when people were so sure the Earth was the center of the universe. Then science stepped in a proved that we go around the sun.

Or Evolution, people just assume that humans are so special that we were created seperately. Then science steps in and shows us that all life, humans included, evolved through natural selection. Given enough time, matter evolves into consciousness. It's hard for some to see Evolution because humans only live a very short time. Evolution takes billions of years to work. Just look around at the beautiful diversity of the biological world to see it's work.

"Without the tools of science, the machinery of life would be invisable." Carl Sagan in COSMOS

Wasn't religion and god invented by humans?

Answer 1

Science is often manipulated to push the Liberal/Atheists agenda.

Answer 2

Why don't people trust science? Because...

> It's self-correcting and is always evolving.

If I trust in one part of science today today and tomorrow it changes then my trust yesterday was wrong. I was mislead and misguided. Also your statements are self contradictary...

> Once something is proven true by careful observations by science, then it is true.

How can it be true if it is "always evolving". In ten years some foundational truth of science may be totally disproven, causing us to have to rethink everything.

Science is good to observe and understand things, but it is NOT something to be trusted.

As for evolution, which version do you believe? There are at least 5 different versions. Also what about the mathematical impossibility that haunts evolution. Have you run the numbers? Millions of years is not nearly long enough for everything to randomly come into place.

> Evolution takes billions of years to work. Just look around at the beautiful diversity of the biological world to see it's work.

Doesn't that prove Design? If you have a painting, either a paint factory in china exploded and the mona lisa came out or you know that there is a painter. Similarly, if you have a building, you know from the evidence of the building that their must have been a builder.

It is impossible for randomality to create DNA, and then create the system by which DNA is processed so that it knows how to split a cell properly and then shaping and clustering them in countless different ways to form bones, skin, blood, joints, ligaments, brain matter, toungues, etc.

Evolution can not honestly explain any of that, and in fact if you look at everything around you honestly, you see clearly that it is impossible for things just to have appeared. Evolution says that nothing became something which ended up being everything. That is why over hundreds of years increasingly complex science, evolution has remained a Theory.

Do you need any more reasons?

Answer 3

People can and do trust science. It has made great strides over the centuries. But in your own point you made a good observation as to why it should be relative trust and not absolute. Your example of the earth being the center of the universe is good because it was "true" until it was proved wrong --- what else is "true" today that will be proved wrong tomorrow.

Science has been telling us many things that eventually change --- look at all of the dieting schemes people have tried, prescription drugs that turned out to be dangerous --- When I was in school, I was taught that Pluto was a planet, taught as fact, when now they have changed their minds.

Where does it end, science is great, but if you put all your belief into it, it will eventually let you down.

Answer 4

People don't trust science because it leaves them with nothing to believe in. They aren't empowered, they can't change thier circumstances, and most of all it leaves them without hope.

Religion empowers people, either by thinking if they believe in someone (God), live thier lives right, do the right thing, ask for something, pray, manifest, cast spells, etc... they can change the outcome of thier lives. And so they have power, and a hope that the future will be brighter.

Science takes that all away. It is a beautiful thing, evolution is an amazing process, but where does that leave you or me? We will all be born, live and die. What is there to look forward to? We won't be here to see the world evolve, so we have to live for now. And pray/dream/wish/hope/manifest, a better world, so that we can atleast think that we matter, that we are important, and that we made our lives what we wanted, when it counted.

Science may have all of the answers to the nature world, but religion and faith give us answers to the spiritual world.

Answer 5

I totally agree with you!! This has been going on for far too long. For example Greek's in the ancient times had believed in greek mytholgy over science just like humans do in this present time with Creatism over Evolution. Funny how we constantly evolve but also in the same token we often repeat our same steps that we should have learned from before.


It's funny because what can be discovered today can change tomorrow. This is mostly why people don't trust-they simply just don't understand the definition of "Evolution."

Answer 6

If that statement was true then science could be trusted. But in the past its not just the uncovering of the mysteries of the universe but the "subjective" evaluation of what there are and how they came! That is why science can not be trusted - because it subjective to interpretation of those who look at what is discovered.

Answer 7

Science changes and comes up with new answers all the time. It is called growth. Those who don't trust it live by an extremely slow to change set of rules. Those who don't trust science put their trust in something less tangible.

Answer 8

Simple. They would rather believe the crap of religion and invisible men floating out in space! After all if you take away the invisible man they wouldn't be able to hate others as easy as they can now. Plus then they'd have to accept responcibility for their actions!

Face it reality does not appeal to people that believe in fairy tales!!

Answer 9

have confidence in God has little to do with the utility of scientific know-how. technological understanding has its barriers, yet that does no longer mean that technological understanding isn't sensible. many people think of that technological understanding can answer all of our questions. it rather is because of the fact they do no longer comprehend that technological understanding is the seek for certainty by potential of the utility of the scientific technique. while scientists speculate approximately matters that are no longer observable, such because of the fact the muse of the universe, the muse of existence & c, they arise with theories that are no longer technological understanding. exceedingly while those theories are in line with assumptions. genuine technological understanding isn't in line with assumptions, that's in line with assertion. It a individual assumes that existence originated by potential of organic forces, and not because of the fact the act of a author, she or he will have the skill to settle for evolution, or some comparable subject. yet because of the fact the assumption can no longer be shown the two way, evolution keeps to be a specualtion - no longer technological understanding.

Answer 10

Just that why should we trust science?

We weren't there, same refute people use to disprove God.

Its hard to believe, same again.

I don't trust science for one reason:

It was invented by humans.

God Bless

Answer 11

Because while science has proven that we jog around the big yellow ball, people are dying by the millions from war, hunger and disease.