Do you think the law of science has evolved to its current state or do you think it was from the beginning?

Question

Law of science = physics, biology, chemistry or what have you that mankind have proved and will prove to be fact.

Since science is not a game of chance but "exact science" it's very difficult for me to imagine that the guiding principles for everything could have evolved. Yet if it hadn't evolved this greatest script of live that no one can deviate from just came to be as perfect as it is.

Answer 1

In general, the physical principles which govern the operation of the universe have not changed. That's what you could call perfect. It works.

Science is about man's understanding of those principles. You could say that the understanding has evolved over time. We know that our understanding is not complete. Some of science (quantum mechanics) is a game of chance. But as best we can tell, it is a physical principle which is just as fundamental to the operation of the universe as electromagnetism, gravity, and so on.

We don't know whether there could be other universes based on different physical principles, perhaps with different values of the physical constants.

To contradict my first statement, some scientists are considering that the physical principles might have been different in the earliest nanoseconds of the big bang. In particular, the speed of light might have been different. This is still just speculation, but serious speculation.

Answer 2

Science has evolved, like everything else. The knowledge we have acquired over the years has increased and the methods of science have improved.

However, you display some misconceptions about science in your question: "Law of science" doesn't really make sense to say - science is a set of methods for acquiring knowledge about nature, about the real world, about the universe around us. Science results in a set of theories that are the best descriptions available for how nature operates. Science is not always right, but seeks to find it's own errors and thus always progresses forward, towards the ultimate truth.

So, by referring to science as perfect, don't make the mistake of assuming that it is always right. However, as a system of thought and methods that is based on ideas that are testable, disprovable, repeatable, universal and self-correcting, it is far superior to any other way humans have ever attempted to acquire practical knowledge (e.g., from authority).

Answer 3

According to Carl Sagan's Cosmos series, the modern philosophy of science (the idea that there are fundamental rules that govern the entire universe, and that we can discover these rules through observation and experiment) was born on the island of Samos in the 6th century BC.

However, the philosophy took a vacation for a long while (the Dark Ages) before coming back (the Renaissance).