The Scientific Method.. and Reality.

Don't get the two confused whatever you do... it's bad for your health.

For a few hundred years on a planet that is about 4.5 billion years old, Science has been a great tool to learn and grow in our awareness of what exists within Reality. It's infancy must be over by now and it is time for Science to learn to walk... for the next few hundred or thousand years.

Science knows how Science works.. theories are thought up to explain something Science can observe. Very often this means it makes itself wrong.. by finding something new it didn't know before.

And yet Science has a type of brotherhood mentality, like soldiers or police, in that it thinks it already knows everything about what it has decided are the facts... so far. It then ignores it's own history, and derides anyone who is theorising or expounding something new that goes against the grain of The Facts... so far.

In the past couple of years in course of conversation with some of this brotherhood, I have seen them immediately go to personal attack on the individual and attempting to assasinate their character so that No One else will listen to them. They have used their obvious education and air of superiority that we often see in people who are closed minded, to over-power the individual voice.

So, if you or anyone else who has direct experience in the scientific fields, like Archeology, Ancient History ...or any other pidegeon hole in Science.. that differs from the The Facts.. and you do not have a string of small letters after your name.. oh, and the much needed peer reviewed papers.. then you are a Fraud.. a Fringe dweller in Reality and not worthy of being heard in a Conversation.

Weird isn't it?

I mean, how do the elitist in this brotherhood learn anything new.. other than it must adhere to the way they say it must? What if The Facts still have information not yet observed in it?

I know of a man who has been studying Ancient cultures around Gympie for his whole life.. as did his grandfather and great-grandfather.. no not the Gilroy fraudster. Sure these men never had the string of letters after their name.. so never got to need peer review papers.. but these men learned something valuable, they recorded their evidences and maintained artifacts or found artifacts during archeological digs.. with a proper archeologist on board in more modern times... and Yet..

Science won't even bother to look at them ! The elitists say it's just Fringe stuff and not worth anything to them.. before they even had a look or spoke to the man or the museum he took artifacts he found to.

What is wrong with this picture?

A shepherd in the middle east can pull one of his goats out of a small cave, find some old scrolls, and Science goes berserk over it.

Yet an honest man can find and pull a large ancient artifact out of a small salt water lake in Queensland and be totally ignored, while being pushed to the Fringe by Science.. and some groups of religionists.

Don't get me wrong here.. I LOVE Science.  It excites me with the pace of discoveries in the micro and macro worlds. It bores me to death with it's incessant face of superiority. It makes me think outside the box about some of the unanswered questions, I respect it for the many positive improvements to life on earth due directly to Science.

But I cannot tolerate the Elitism of the brotherhood mentality... especially when historically it proves itself to have been wrong and it doesn't think it can happen again.

/rant