Science is wrong.

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Ok, not alway, of course, but I want to take the attention of all thoose science believers that claim religion is wrong because of science. First, there are lot of science branchs that involve religious matters, such as defined by Aristotles as "methaphysics" as the oposite and complimentary to "physics". But second, science is wrong many times, so it is also something that we have to believe and have trust (=faith) in order for it to work. Have you ever heard of Thomas Kuhn and his explanations of the actual scientific developpping-undevelloping? Check out his definition of Paradigm:It has since become widely applied to many other realms of human experience as well even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. According to Kuhn, "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share.” (The Essential Tension, 1997). Unlike a normal scientist, Kuhn held, “a student in the humanities has constantly before him a number of competing and incommensurable solutions to these problems, solutions that he must ultimately examine for himself.” (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). A scientist, however, once a paradigm shift is complete, is not allowed the luxury, for example, of positing the possibility that miasma causes the flu or that ether carries light in the same way that a critic in the Humanities can choose to adopt a 19th century theory of poetics, for instance, or select Marxism as an explanation of economic behaviour. So these are the sad "commandments" of someone who believes in science:1, Paradigm shifts are a necessary part of life. Things do change, and we have to adjust to that change. 2. Paradigm shifts can be bad. Society needs quite a bit of stability, so that it can depend on its view of the world. Constant shifts in major elements of our paradigm would make our lives very difficult. 3. Paradigm shifts often come from the young. Older people have more to conserve. They have more of investment, financial and psychological, in their paradigm. Winston Churchill said that any man who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart, and any man who is not a conservative at 40 has no mind. 4. You cannot abandon a paradigm until you have one to put in its place, because our paradigm is that which allows us to function. Without a paradigm, good or bad, we cannot function. 5. It usually takes a long time to effect a paradigm shift - often as much as 20 years, about the life of a generation. (See Point 3 above, and for an example, see also Maxwell.) For more information:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift http://www.ee.scu.edu/eefac/healy/kuhn.html Ok, I hope to hear your opinion and if you ever thought on this before, or read Kuhn stuff before, please share.