What Is Science?

 

 

We are following the science

I hear the authorities say

And that of course is the stimulus

To get us act in a certain way.

 

It especially relates to COVID-19

And how to beat this foe

And what strikes me most of the time

There is much that we don’t know.

 

But we are following the science

They all suggest

Though shooting in the dark

Is what they do best.

 

Hence, the question on my mind

What really is science?

Is it different for different people?

What’s its level of reliance?

 

For sure I am confused

Regarding all of this science,

I was taught that it was observable

And that I can trust its evidence.

 

Yet science that was once true

Is not true in our day and age,

It certainly seems to me

That science is at a different stage.

 

We hear about scientific facts

Like the earth is round

But long ago many said it was flat

Though later proven to be wrong.

 

Man landed on the moon

Though that is still being disputed

And a lot of science we learnt at school

Has since become uprooted.

 

So, is science the knowledge?

Is it the pursuit?

Is it the database we have?

What really forms its root?

 

Is it a calculated guess?

Is the ongoing experimentation?

What really is science?

Please relieve my apprehension.

 

Of course, I am aware

There are myriad fields of science,

Some are said to be exact

And others with acceptable variance.

 

General science and medical science

And the science of criminology,

Social science and physical science

And the science of psychology.

 

There are genetics and physics

And the science of linguistics,

Oceanology, zoology and biology

Astronomy botany and geology.

 

And these are not even all

Though a far cry from secondary school

When physics, chemistry and biology

Were the standard rule.

 

Now we have pure science and applied

The exact and the defiled,

Science with a bias and an agenda

Science with an attempt to beguile.

 

And the more we learn

The more lost we seem,

Like a bright light with no focus

Because there is the lack of a beam.

 

True science and flawed science

Creation and evolution,

In one of these lies science origin

My conclusion is creation.

 

 

 

All of science starts with God

Since He began it all,

Omni-science is one of his attributes

And all is at His beck and call.

 

Stewart Russell © February 19, 2021