In Celebration of Science

How do we come to know things?  What information sources do we trust?  These are important questions, since we live in a world so large and rapidly changing that we’re able to personally verify almost nothing we believe we know to be true.

One important difference between life on Earth 500 years ago and what we experience today is science.  In the Middle Ages, things that were held to be true and correct either came from the king or the Church.  No one thought to question either source, and, even doing so would not have produced much, because, pre-science, no tools existed by which we could make sense of the world around us.

Having said all this, science isn’t perfect nor is it set in stone; those are permanent, unavoidable frailties.  Yet that doesn’t mean we don’t derive enormous benefit from the application of science, and the meme above is the perfect reminder.   What alternatives do we have?  Televangelists?