a1swdeveloper
1 min readMay 12, 2024

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Science, as we see it today is based the wealth and power it demonstrated in WWI. Today it is still great for both, while solving problems we created with its early careless use. The 1925 Scopes trial pretty much ended the ancient war between science and religion, but it doesn't mean that science has led to understanding. Science is a jealous mistress that claims all authority of knowledge. It is far from it. Worse yet, the chauvinism of science meant that phislophy was a casualty of that war. Heck, even such practical things as civics, history, home economics, Phys Ed, manual arts and others have been crowded out by STEM. A major function of religon was to provide explanations to fill the gaps in humanity's logical model of the world and universe, the "God of the Gaps". This is incredibly important and science simply cannot provide all of that even if it can explain things back to single cells and the big bang. Science will never answer the moral questions that religon did because science is all based on reason, which life is not. As far as we know, it is based on the experimentation of evoolution with its huge component of chance that defies logic.It is because it is. Life is not about survival of the fittest. It is about survival of the survivors. Science can't really explain that and so leaves a gap.

Science, like our civilization and society, is based on philosophy and one must ask if it can survive without it.

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a1swdeveloper
a1swdeveloper

Written by a1swdeveloper

I work on long term human survival as humans try to adapt to a new ecology after we left the tribal ecology for the farms and cities of civilization

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