Evolution: How Science Managed to Discredit Itself

Evolution is essentially the process by which the gene pool of a species or population change. Until it is extrapolated to ancient times, evolution doesn't conflict with creationism, it just states the fact that as individuals of a population reproduce, over time, variations in genetic makeup begin to appear. By bringing evolution to light, scientists also illuminated the process by which their very profession came into existence.

Throughout human history, individuals have sought to understand and explain the world around them. First, we developed language in order to give us some way of expressing and comprehending the stimuli we encounter. Soon thereafter, humans set out to explore and explain their surroundings. Eventually, we invented the field of science. Since that day, scientists have busy proposing hypotheses and presenting theories that "explain" why or how things happen. When a theory seems to be irrefutable, it is considered fact until new evidence comes along and disproves it. This process has repeated itself countless times over the course of human history.

What reason then do we have to believe that science today is any more accurate than it was when the world was flat and the sun revolved around it? Scientists are quick to point out how much more advanced we are and how far we have come since those days of ignorance, but I wonder if they won't be saying the same thing in another thousand years.

I'm not saying that all of science is wrong; maybe none of it is and we really have come that far, but to me, science today seems to posess an arrogance that can only hinder further advances.