F**k science! And logic!

It all converges to one concept- faith, belief. What is it that you believe in; what is it that appeals to you. Do you believe in logic, in reason, in science? Do you believe in the mystical, in religion? Cynics should say that this is blasphemy, that I am just rubbishing about, that faith has no place in science, in logic. Really? Let us examine things a bit more deeply.

Science is based on experiments, which are in turn based on sensory perception, and on inference. May be it will be better to consider an example. I say that we cannot be sure of anything in this world. You do not agree. You say that we know for sure that if I throw a ball in the air, it will come down. I ask why. You say because of the law of gravity- any two masses attract each other. I ask if this law is infallible. You say that it has been infallible so far because no exception has been observed. I ask if you can guarantee that just because no exception has been observed so far, no exception will ever be observed. You say that no one can guarantee that. End of discussion.

We do not know for sure if any damned given scientific law will hold in the next moment, but still we bank on these laws, we swear by them, we live and design our lives based on them. Why? Because these laws have been observed to be true for, let's say, a thousand years, or a million, or billion years. So? That does not mean that they will hold for another million years; that does not mean that these laws are infallible. The dinosaurs lived and thrived for millions of years but that did not guarantee their survival for eternity- according to science, one fine day, a meteor decided to visit our dear earth, and annihilated them. What argument can you give to assure me that any given law will not meet a similar fate?

Still, science is to be considered grater than religion. I do not agree. Is not the usage of these scientific laws based on blind faith? Does a man of science not believe that these laws are infallible? Does he not believe in observation and sensory perception? Can he justify his beliefs? If not, then science and religion might not be as different as we are made to believe. Their foundations may not be so different after all- they may both be equally strong or weak.