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Of course not! Science can\u2019t be always right by definition because scientific knowledge isn\u2019t something cut in stone. It can be changed and redefined. Scientists can be mistaken in certain issues and then admit their mistakes. The funniest example of that is medieval scientists believing that insects have eight feet because Aristotle, the great Ancient Greek scholar, wrote that, and his authority was unquestionable for almost two thousand years. No one even thought of doubting his conclusion and rechecking how many feet a grasshopper or a fly really had. Scientists of the 18th<\/sup> century \u2013 and I mean real and respected scientists, not charlatans \u2013 believed that there was an invisible fluid called caloric, and it was that substance that conducted heat. French academics claimed in the same 18th<\/sup> century that stones can\u2019t fall from the sky. That is, they denied that meteorites fall on Earth sometimes.<\/p>\n This is precisely how science works: scientists keep doubting and testing seemingly established facts, looking for new ways to explain them, which allow us to describe our observations more accurately. That is why, if science is wrong about any issue, it won\u2019t continue to be wrong indefinitely. Scientists will correct their mistakes and replace an inaccurate theory with a more accurate one; they will reduce a law that is now considered universal to a particular case of an even more universal law.<\/p>\n Here is another point worth stressing: science cannot (and doesn\u2019t try to) explain everything there is. There are phenomena that fall out of scope of science, e.g., love between people, the perception of beauty and the emotions that we have when we are looking on pictures, listening to music, or reading poetry.<\/p>\n In fact, there are some scholars who attempt to explore those phenomena and to explain all human feelings and thoughts away by physics or chemistry. Physics and chemistry can only look into what happens in our body when we feel something. Feelings can\u2019t be reduced to physics and chemistry. It\u2019s like trying to explain how a poet writes a poem: \u201cWell, he gets a sheet of paper and a pencil. The pencil scratches the paper, small particles of graphite leave their traces on the paper, that\u2019s how\u2026\u201d Can this method explain why the poet decided to write Those Parts Of Thee That The World’s Eye Doth View<\/em>, rather than So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse<\/em> or Oh Shadow on the Grass<\/em>?<\/p>\n Naturally, science doesn\u2019t look into the issues of faith. Science doesn\u2019t say anything about angels, heaven and hell, or miracles \u2013 if it\u2019s real science, that is, not a religious doctrine pretending to be science. There have been quite a few such fakes. Besides, there are people who are convinced that there isn\u2019t anything except the things that science can explore. In other words, there is neither love nor beauty nor God. In fact, this opinion is by no means scientific. It is a philosophical doctrine called scientism (derived from the word \u2018science\u2019), which isn\u2019t related to real science, such as physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of course not! Science can\u2019t be always right by definition because scientific knowledge isn\u2019t something cut in stone. 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