Science Is True Because It Never Disagrees With Itself

The kids and others these days who argue against religion or traditional religions frequently use the argument that religion is inconsistant and science is consistant. The idea that science is a competitor for the position of religion was brought about using the supressive actions of the Middle ages against scientists along with strange old women who lived alone and anyone who did not have the support of the church for their way of life.

These medievalists would have had some notions of practical knowledge that were the state of the art science. Water is in the ground. I eat pigs. Things that by understanding helped them make lives for themselves.

Science has proliferated from the enlightenment to the scientific revolution and it is apparently viewed by most as a single body of proven facts and values that can compete with or replace religion as a means to assemble a livable way of existance. Religion is viewed as sullied from the misbeahavior of every preceding generation and as a cause of their misery and the proliferation of miseries for every generation ever known. That the world has been that awful for everyone is just assumed. But some pagans say that there were little "Fantasia" respites along the way when glorious free people sated themselves on all the beauty and bounty and killed without remorse for the benefit of the cool lifestyle.

The enlightenment did not only free science it also redefined the concepts of the individuals right to have a self at all. Human beings had not always been granted permission to learn or think beyond what they could pass along in their own private conversations. Classes of overlords held onto the history and had not the means or the interest to share it with the masses. Modern proponents of scientific atheism appear to think these people were dumb for going to church and believing in God.

When I read history anymore I do not look at it as anything but an attempt to describe something that occurred a long time ago. I can not try to argue with the ways these people behaved themselves because I understand that they were doing the best that they could with the values and beliefs that they were bound by. Understanding them is still interesting and worthwhile but pronouncing them as moral or immoral all the time I feel is beyond the capacity of anyone looking back at them from a modern perspective.