When Science Goes Wrong: The Desire and Search for Truth Consolmagno Guy
When Science Goes Wrong: The Desire and Search for Truth Consolmagno Guy The science/faith discussion is often hindered by a fundamental misunderstanding of the role and function of science. The ways…
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When Science Goes Wrong: The Desire and Search for Truth Consolmagno Guy
The science/faith discussion is often hindered by a fundamental misunderstanding of the role and function of science. The ways that science has gone wrong, and the underlying causes of how it goes wrong, will be illustrated here with a series of historical essays describing ideas about the universe, planet Earth, and the evolution of life that were all based on ideas that were reasonable...but ultimately wrong. This misunderstand was made most evident, with tragic consequences, during the recent pandemic.
Just as the major religions have adapted in the face of changing cultural cosmologies, so too has science adapted in the face of challenging new observations and new ideas. Some are amusing in retrospect; others are tragic.Theology, philosophy, or even mathematics may lay claim to eternal truths, but in science our very cosmologies change. Religions and science are