Scientific revolution, the discovery of ignorance, dogma of science.

 Scientific revolution, the discovery of ignorance, dogma of science.

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Until the scientific revolution, most people did not believe in progress in human culture. The golden age was in the past, and it was thought that the world was stagnant if not degenerate. If we strictly follow old wisdom, the good old days may come back and human creativity can improve various aspects of our daily life, but the prevailing perception was that human knowledge could not overcome the fundamental problems of the world.

While many believed that a Savior would one day appear and end the world's wars, famines, and even death, it was absurd to think that mankind would be able to do such a thing by discovering new knowledge and inventing new tools. It was arrogance.

Modern culture has acknowledged that there are many important things we still don't know. When that acknowledgement of ignorance, combined with the idea that scientific discoveries could give us new power, Salmas began to speculate that real progress might be possible.

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The scientific revolution is not a knowledge revolution. Above all, it was a revolution of ignorance.

The great discovery that launched the Scientific Revolution was the discovery that mankind does not know the answers to the most important questions.

The pre-modern traditional knowledge of Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism asserted that everything important to know about the world is already known.

The great gods, or all-powerful one god, the sages had all-encompassing wisdom, and they made it known to humans through written and oral traditions.

 In that sense, science today is unique as a tradition of knowledge. It does so by publicly acknowledging a collective ignorance of the most important questions.

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Modern science has no dogma. However, research techniques have a common core: they always collect empirical observations and combine them with the help of mathematical tools.

Here, observation means something that can be observed with one of the sense organs.

Throughout history, people have gathered empirical observations, but the importance of these observations is usually limited.

Now that modern people have come to admit that they do not know the answers to some very important questions, they realize they need to seek out a whole new level of knowledge.

As a result, the dominant modern research techniques take for granted that old knowledge is not sufficient.

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In 1620, Francis Bacon argued in his book that 'knowledge is power.

The true touchstone of knowledge is not whether it is true or not, but whether it is empowering. The real test is utility. The theory that gives you the ability to do new things is knowledge.

Over the centuries, science has provided us with many new tools.

Various weapons were developed through World War I and World War II. But science plays a major role in defence as well as offensive weapons. Many Americans today believe that the solution to terrorism lies in technology, not politics.

Is developing a bionic fly and thought-reading scanner a wise choice?

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Of all mankind's seemingly insoluble problems, the most annoying, interesting and important has always been the problem of death. Death is our unavoidable fate. Until the late modern period, most religions and ideologies took this for granted. Moreover, most beliefs have turned death into a source of meaning to life.

Religions and prophets who taught that we must learn to accept death and have a future in the afterlife have been busy giving meaning to death rather than running away from it.

This was also the subject of ancient mythology, the ancient Sumerian myth of Gilgamesh. Feeling terrifying in the face of the death of his friend, Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find a way to defeat death, but Gilgamesh's expedition ends in failure. He returned home empty-handed as a being who had to accept death. But a piece of new knowledge was with him. he realized

 The gods made death a necessary deliberation when creating man, and that man must learn to live with that destiny.

Indeed, science cannot solve all technical problems at present. But I'm working on a solution. The best people don't waste time giving meaning to death, but rather busy studying the physiological, hormonal, and genetic systems that cause disease and ageing.

How long will the Gilgamesh project in pursuit of immortality take?

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We live in an age of technology. Many sales believe that science and technology have the answer to every problem. If we let scientists and engineers do their jobs, they will build a paradise on earth. However, science is not a business that takes place at a higher moral and spiritual level than other human activities. Like all other aspects of our culture, science is shaped by economic, political and religious interests.

The remarkable achievements of modern science over the past five hundred years are due to adequate funding.

Why are billions of dollars going from government and corporate goldsmiths to laboratories and universities?

Are governments and corporations altruistically funding projects that seem attractive? Most scientific research is funded because it is believed that it will serve some political, economic, or religious purpose.

Fields in which huge resources have been put over time have been developed strictly according to their interests.

Scientific research can only thrive when affiliated with some kind of religion or ideology. Ideology justifies research funding. Instead, ideology influences the scientific agenda and determines how the discoveries of science are used.