exercise in futility

actually, science hasnt been proven.  it "evolves," per say.  Theories of old have come and gone.  Theories that are around now will be gone eventually and disproven.  The Big Bang is a theory.  Evolution, no matter how popular, is still a theory.  There has been no discovery of the "missing link."  Science is as much by faith as faith in God is.  It\'s a personal perception of a progression of steps that lead to a proposed conclusion based on facts or theories or personal experiences.  Science is based off of human logic, a lot of it, and we all know what the deal is with human logic.  Faulty by nature.  it takes faith to believe in science...

To go even further:  say the root of me (my perception) is off, it would follow suit that the whole tree (all my deductions based off that perception) would be rotten from a faulty root.  Now, can a crazy man improperly diagnose himself as sane??  Yes.  So if I was crazy, i wouldn\'t necessarily realize my perception of everything around me was skewed...  but of course this argument is full of water so lets take it one step further.  We KNOW that our sanity is , say, in tact because we look in the mirror that is our peers , or textbooks, or psycologists/psychiatrists and they tell us or would tell us if there were something wrong.  but that\'s entirely based on the idea that society is correct in diagnosing what is the true status quo of sanity in the social norm.  But I look at society and feel that the social norm is ridiculiously skewed so if they\'re for the most part (I believe) at least partially insane and I believe that their perception is off, then how can I rely on a warped mirror like that to assure me that my own mental state is sound? 

Let\'s use the abercrombie and fitch shirts as an example.  Say I\'m a "hot chick" that wears those shirts that say "I make you look fat" or something like that.  Now to me and MY perception, THAT is a clear cut symptom for some kind of sickness - there is something skewed TO ME in that person for wearing that kind of slogan and putting that kind of negative/disgusting vibe out there into the social scene.  A sickness.  But that person doesn\'t perceive it as a sickness.  And neither do millions of other people.  So how can I, for arguments\' sake, rely on you or anyone else out there to tell me whether I\'m nuts or not when I perceive half the people out there to be somewhat nuts themself?  People, in my opinion, are often sick without realizing it...... can i expect myself not to be subject to that same futility?  On the contrary, perhaps it is only when looking through the glass of the eyes of a sick humanity that I can see that very sickness reflected in myself to some extent.  In my opinion, I realize that we are all subject to a degree of that sickness......  I mean, I\'m not perfect here - am I?  Ahhh, how dimly we see through these sallow eyes... 

 yeah, its a tough argument.  yeah, its wordy and difficult to connect.  But i\'ll try my best here to sum it up:  Whether I believe in God or not, firstly - science is by faith(big bang THEORY, THEORY of evolution, human error, etc.)  But secondly, and perhaps more to the root - We have a faith in our own logic that is grounded in nothing more than an imperfect humanity.  People logically believed the earth was flat.  Native Americans logically believed the europeans were half man/half horse because they had never seen horses before.  People logically believed the universe revolved around the earth.

Even if science is constant, man\'s calculation and perception is subject to error.  Philosophy ends in futility because philosophy is the work of imperfect man\'s hands.  If there is such thing as truth, it would have to be a capital "t" divine Truth that surpasses such a base creature as mans\' understanding, and therefore human philosophy will never conquest that great divine Truth it so wishes to master...

Man has faith in science, which is ultimately subject to being filtered through imperfect intelligence - if its not comprised nearly wholly thereof.  To me, that is more like having faith in error than having faith in God is- because at least in the theory of God there is a perfect intelligence that knows more than we'll ever know.  But with science, the faulty logic of man gets disguised as divine law and we nod and we smile and we fold our hands, pleased with how civilized we are and how far we've come since those ancient and barbaric ideas like God and Christ and sin.........

well...at least until the next revision that is.

i could be wrong...