Science Is Not Enough

For the past century, science attemped to epitomize that she is the sole bearer of truth. Though she was never so successful in doing so.

In 2005, a shocking news rocked the world when we learned that Pluto si not anymore a part of the solar system planet lists. For so long a time, people and students believed this truth.

Yesterday I went to the school to check if my techers are still teching like they were when I was elementary and there I came to remember about this issue. I kept asking myself how teachers are adjusting in teaching it and how they will face once a question like "Was science wrong?" is raised.




Half heartedly we can say that science also failed us. In 1960, scientists argued that vegetable oil is teh healthiest oil in the earth. But after several year, forty years to be exact, symptoms of illneses caused by what we--quote an dunquote--believed to be healthy oil started to appear.

Now we found out that virgin coconut oil which can be found in the Philippines and not in America is the healthiest oil. Was it about the marketing dillema that they declared vegetable oil to be the healthiest?

There is such a term as pseudo science. That which attempts to be a real science but never was successful in doing so. How can we diffrentiate it when the real science taht we know failed us.

It is tantamount to saying that even pure science as we know it is not the sole bearer of truth. The same thing as when the Vatican II declared that the Church is not the only bearer of truth.

There is a criterion to the truth. That we have to search with faith and not only with human capabilities. For when human prowess ceases, the divine assistance interferes. That we need to understand.

In our world of today, we need to admit that there is a scientific quagmire inspite of all the technological advancements. Growth in technology does not emblem the prolifiration of science neither the growth of human reasoning. Actually, studies show that the more peopel are into visual learning like television, computer and cinema, the more there is less a time to be imaginative and curious.

Our science brought us to complacency and mediocrity and liits us to our healthy ways of discontentment. What shall we do about it?