Science is the Only Objective Truth

[DirkGently]

88. Yes. It's incredibly arrogant to pretend science is even objective.

What science has going for it is that it ATTEMPTS a rational approach and accepts changes to its precepts, eventually, in theory.

That attempt is laudable. Rationality and objectivity should be attempted.

But claiming that science has the lock on "objective truth" is simply laughable.

There's no magic to a scientific approach, and it's inherently limited. The best it can do is attempt to observe facts and predict results. It's a tool. Science is by definition wrong about most things, because we don't know most things. It's a tiny pinhole of understanding in a vast universe of ignorance. Science has no way to even approach larger truths.

Moreover, when science has made great leaps, it often got there with imagination and intuition leading the way. The painstaking process of trying to verify and replicate is just that -- a process. The result is just that -- a specific result about a specific fact.

You can't double-blind an idea like democracy or ethics or fairness, yet these are some of the most important ideas humanity has ever developed.

Where would we be if all of our thinkers had been hogtied by the silly notion that there is only one approach to understanding?