This is not something new. Science replaced religion as the ultimate source of truth in the Enlightenment.
In actual fact, science does a good job of helping us to understand objective physical reality. However, much of what is called "science" today is not really science.
In other words, people don't distrust science so much as they distrust pseudo science.
In claiming for itself the role of ultimate arbiter of truth, science has undermined its own authority because a large percentage of the scientists no longer have the moral integrity, a byproduct of religion, to correctly practice science.
While Galileo is often held up as an example of religion getting in the way of science, in reality it is an example of authoritarianism usurping truth - and the multitude of hypocrisies surrounding the C19 response bears this out.
I hope you are not comparing science to the Enlightenment, or that the Enlightenment was science.
The Enlightenment was a philosophy that basically boiled down to this: No more Divine Right, as men can reason on their own without the Church and the State getting involved.
This is not something new. Science replaced religion as the ultimate source of truth in the Enlightenment.
In actual fact, science does a good job of helping us to understand objective physical reality. However, much of what is called "science" today is not really science.
In other words, people don't distrust science so much as they distrust pseudo science.
In claiming for itself the role of ultimate arbiter of truth, science has undermined its own authority because a large percentage of the scientists no longer have the moral integrity, a byproduct of religion, to correctly practice science.
While Galileo is often held up as an example of religion getting in the way of science, in reality it is an example of authoritarianism usurping truth - and the multitude of hypocrisies surrounding the C19 response bears this out.
I hope you are not comparing science to the Enlightenment, or that the Enlightenment was science.
The Enlightenment was a philosophy that basically boiled down to this: No more Divine Right, as men can reason on their own without the Church and the State getting involved.