The Science Thing

I like science. Science is good. We could not heat our homes, drive our cars, or cure diseases without it. So, yay science.

Yet science is also very rote, very basic. It's a shallow type of knowing. Science tells me that it is cold and windy in Detroit this morning. Well, duh. 

What's my point? Simply that while science can be useful all it really does is give facts which are by themselves rather banal. It does not and cannot make any value judgments. It merely is. Why or whether we should heat our homes, drive our cars, and cure diseases, what we should do with our scientific knowledge, are questions behind science. 

This is where issues of good and bad come in. Those issues are not scientific. Even the judgments that science is useful and good are non scientific. They're not empirical but rational. They are above and beyond science.

Basically, don't tell me that science is the end all be all. It isn't, even on its own terms.