I have long described how watching the movie “Men in Black” destroyed my faith in the inerrancy of science. It didn’t invalidate science as a process and a way of studying things. But it certainly caused me to think twice about what we as people hold onto as inerrant truth and “written in stone.”
Truthfully, the nature of science is that we are ever learning. The things that we “knew to be true” 1000 years ago are no longer true today. Imagine what we will know to be true tomorrow.
It can be somewhat terrifying when I sit down in those quiet moments and spend any amount of time thinking about it.
Today, I ran across a really interesting article detailing a new discovery. It’s an exciting and amazing find that will change the way science interprets history; there is a giant single celled organisim that is large enough to leave a trail in the dirt where ever it goes. They say that it may be the oldest living fossil on record. But don’t let the excitement of the discovery overshadow the significance of this finding – it will *change the way science interprets history.*
And that’s the issue at hand here. Incorrectly interpreted history has been passed of as fact and law since the beginning of time. Whether it’s the recounting of an event by multiple witnesses from different perspectives with different stories or it’s a detective trying to put together the pieces of a crime scene, there is a ceiling to what we can actually know. There is a limit to how much we can conclude and profess as fact.
Take a look at the link to the article. Read some of the comments by the readers who hate creationists. There are people there bemoaning a magic box quote from one of the principle scientists, but they completely miss the fact that everything they believed in before has just been “corrected,” and stands to be corrected for the rest of eternity.
Take an opportunity to think outside of the box here and leave a comment.
http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,3361,Single-Celled-Giant-Upends-Early-Evolution,Discoveryhttp://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/20/gromia-cambrian.html
Comments (2)
Hmm, interesting news. Science is just our feeble attempt to explain the world; models only survive until we dig deeper and discover their limitations.
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