Does Science Provide Us Comfort?

In response to the question posed at left, a reader remarks:  No, it makes you restless.

That’s a fine answer, and it’s true that a blind certainty provides better peace of mind than living in a constant state of doubt, searching for something that appears to be elusive.

There is another side to the coin however, in that science is the only method we have to get at the truth.

It’s not that science is always right; in fact, it would be more proper to say that it’s always wrong.   Think of how little of what we believed about the world 400 years ago we still hold true today.  And this is only likely to get worse in the future, as the pace of our investigations continues to increase.

That said, there is a certain comfort to knowing that we’re employing the only good tool for the job.