Max Beaux Arts

I don’t believe in science for three reasons: 1. The nature of science 2. The philosophical reasons 3. My personal reasons.

1. As one of the greatest man in the scientific field, Descartes said something like “To be scientific, is to doubt everything.” I agree with him on this very much. BTW Descartes is the guy who said ” Je pense donc je suis./ I think therefore I am(exist)”. Many people nowadays say “I believe in science.” This is the biggest misinterpretation of science because if you believe in science, meaning you are not doubting it therefore it’s unscientific. Only to doubt is to be scientific. To believe is to be unscientific and religious. It is actually the spirit of science to doubt science itself. Hopefully you understand this paradox here.

Some other people will say, what about iPhones, what about the internet, etc. aren’t they just the fruits of science and thus proving that science is good. I would quote Le Maitre de Sacy here. He said science is like a broken clock with its arms eternally pointing at two o’clock, and whenever it’s two o’clock, people would say: ” See? That clock tells pure truth!” This is so far the best metaphor I could find about science.

2. The philosophical reason. The one and only toughest challenge man has been facing, for thousands of year, is death. More than two thousand years ago, the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang was sending his men all over the world in search for the pills for eternal life and legend has it that that was how Japan received their first wave of civilization and finally had their own writing system.

Anyways. The philosophical point is this: Science has to achieve at least one of the two things to make people (like me) completely bow down in front of its shrine : It has to either offer man immortality, or it has to find G-d. Because if science can give us immortality, we can finally say with certainty that we don’t need G-d anymore. Because G-d only promised immortality with conditions while if science could simply offer it to us; Or if science can finally find G-d, by then we can give death a middle finger and live happily ever after, literally EVER after. But so far, science has achieved neither. And I doubt science would ever get there. In fact, at the rate where science is going, I’m quite convinced that science will never reach there and it will remain forever a secondary knowledge compared to the knowledge of G-d. Because science is very temporary and only deals with earthly matters, but the knowledge of G-d is the knowledge of eternity. Do not forget. Man lives but 100 years, which is a blink of an eye in the entire history of man. His inexistent and death seems eternal compared to his time alive. Trading the knowledge of G-d for science is like trading an eternity for a blink of an eye. It’s obviously a very bad deal.

3. I was born during the time of scientific and technological boom. Not like right now, when science and technology is in total stagnation. Back in our times, people were full of hope and had lots of predictions of the future. How science could form our future and affect our lives in the most positive ways? There was so much to hope for. Everyone was having great dreams. One of the most popular was of course the manga Doraemon. A blue robot, extremely human like, from the future and offers all the good new inventions of the 22nd century for people in the 1970s to enjoy. For example, one of my favourite was the propeller on top of the head to enable you to fly. I sincerely thought that a personal flying machine would be common in daily lives very soon.

Since I also loved roller blading when I was little, I had my first great dream about my future: Maybe in my life time, I would be able to have a pair of roller blade that can make me fly. Coincidentally, such wheels already existed in the Chinese folklore or mythology. It was called 风火轮, wind-and-fire wheels, a magical wheels owned by Nezha. So that wasn’t too unreasonable for me to believe it back then.

Apparently science hasn’t delivered on that. I had that dream probably when I was 10 and now I’m 40. Thirty years has passed. All I got from science was computers after computers and the internet. That’s it. Cancer is still cancer. Death is still the same death. Transportation is still mainly on land for our daily lives. What a great let down for the child that’s still living inside of me.

I actually truly believe until this day, a personal flying machine is not that hard to achieve for science, yet it’s still not there. In short, I’m very very disappointed with science. Very disappointed.

To conclude, if people were to ask me why I don’t believe in science, I’d simply reply : Where is flying wheels and immortality pills?