> "Can we trust this young nobody," way. That's normal science at work. Old sages are biased, like everybody else. Fortunately, they are mortal too [1], and sc

> "Can we trust this young nobody," way. That's normal science at work. Old sages are biased, like everybody else. Fortunately, they are mortal too [1], and science keeps moving forward 'one funeral at a time', as the saying goes. The problem is with people who want to substitute faith in the Divine Providence of God, with faith in the (eventual) Unfailibility of Science. We are just a bunch of social primates, after all. We were never meant to peek into the Deep Mysteries of Existence, anyways... which does not mean we cannot use our relatively advanced intelects to figure out a bunch of clever and useful tricks. ======= edit: comment [1] [1] Something that is nightmare fuel to me is that one day we are going to stumble upon some serious life extending technology, and then we will all end up under the thumb of a bunch of ancient, obstinated fools who cannot/won't accept the limits of their own leadership skills.