Science as a belief is in crisis
Science as a belief is in crisis. Believing physicists are searching “the explanation of everything” (eg, string theory and Higg’s particle) and believing biological systematists are searching “the tree of life”, as if someone has told them that there is “an explanation of everything” and a “tree of life”.
Unfortunately, their search dives into Russell’s paradox. They should have listened to the warning that we must not confuse church and state (or fall in love with our theories). As a belief, science is a dead end leading to paradox.
Science is a craft, not a belief. This fact do we, scientists, have to be totally honest about, as the Japanese Nobel Price winner Shinya Yamanaka 
also emphasized, in his case for Japanese scientists to regain confidence for science of the Japanese public. It is not productive keep the myth that science can function as a belief alive, however tempting it may be, but, on the contrary, counter-productive when the public discovers that it is wrong.
We (scientists) have to admit that science can’t find “the truth”, because science can only talk in terms of probabilities. It means that there isn’t any “explanation of everything” or “true tree of life” (sorry to say). We (scientists) just do the best we can to produce models that can help us (humanity) to predict and govern process. That’s all we can do. Science is a craft, not a belief.
Another contribution to understanding of conceptualization http://menvall.wordpress.com/
2012-12-11 22:41:18
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