Science Is Beautiful

It could be argued that the meme here is an attack on religion, and that’s partly true.  Yet what makes it so remarkable is the idea that there are no “universal truths.”  That’s quite a statement, when you think about it.

There is virtually nothing that we in the 21st Century believe about our Earth-bound life forms and the universe in which we live that we held as true 400 years ago.

It’s now “known,” to take an example, that the atoms that make up your body were born from dying stars, and that this “truth” was discovered in our lifetimes.  If I has asked my science teachers in high school where all this carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen came from, they would have said, “Sorry, son.  We have no idea.”

To most of us, there is a sublime beauty to science and its progression, which is why it’s so horrific to watch our American society reject it as the basis for policy-making.  It’s like watching someone set fire to the Mona Lisa.