Humans who only take science classes in high school have a minimal knowledge of science. If they never follow up high school with additional science, then their knowledge of science is inadequate for today’s world. (Click comments to read the full posting.)
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The Middle Way 
Why Humans Do Not Understand Science
Humans who only take science classes in high school have a minimal knowledge of science. If they never follow up high school with additional science, then their knowledge of science is inadequate for today’s world.
Humans have five very limited senses that help humans survive in the world. Although completely adequate for survival, human senses can only detect 1/1000th of the full spectrum. That means that 99.999% of the world is invisible (non-sense) to humans. This is where science comes to our aid. Using scientific theories and scientific instruments, scientists are able to detect and verify what humans alone cannot.
Human senses: ……….. Scientific instruments:
Sight: 1mm – 10km ……. million times smaller and million times farther
Sound: 20Hz – 20KHz …. 1000 times lower and 1000 times higher
Smell: type, sensitivity … 1000 times the variety and 1000 times as sensitive
Taste: type, sensitivity … 1000 times the variety and 1000 times as sensitive
Touch: 1mm, 1 deg …….. 1000 times finer and 1000 times as sensitive
Time: 1 sec to 1 day ……. million times shorter and million times longer
Location: on land …………. anywhere we can send our instruments (space, oceans, underground)
The Scientific Method, the foundation of science is composed of these 7 steps:
Observation: define a question, gather information and resources (observe)
Hypothesis (conjecture): form an explanatory hypothesis
Prediction: if this is done, then this should happen
Testing: Test the hypothesis by performing experiments and collecting data in a reproducible manner
Analysis: analyze, interpret the data and draw conclusions
Replication (confirmation): allow others to retest, confirm or refute
External review: Publish to allow review by the whole scientific community. Only explanations that make accurate predictions in a wide range of circumstances get to be called “scientific theories”.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method)
Scientific theories that make accurate predictions and which undergo decades of scrutiny are essentially FACTS… truths about our world and universe that have proven to be 100% correct. Humans with limited sensory abilities and little scientific knowledge are essentially using a primitive brain to make decisions about how the world works, so are wrong 99% of the time. Scientific instruments are the equivalent of modern day “super-heroes”, with thousands of times the capabilities of humans. Leaders who deny scientific theories are essentially trying to take humans back to the Middle Ages, since facts don’t lie but humans do.
“Mysteries of the Unseen World” is a 39 min National Geographic movie on the wonders that can be found, beyond normal human senses. It is the perfect complement to the above. (on Netflix stream)