If covid wasn't the perfect example of bastardized 'science', I don't know what is. Most of what they said was wrong, alot of it was just made up propaganda to dictate control over the population.
Keep in mind that while there was some science involved in developing and using the technology to manufacture COVID, the political elements in that story overwhelm the rest shortly after the virus was created. From there, keeping funding going, developing it as a weapon, and its timely release to interfere with our economy and open the floodgates of electoral fraud are all political/pecuniary in nature. How many billions were spent on useless masks? How many small businesses (often right-leaning folks) were destroyed by lockdowns? The oil drilling industry collapsed (also strongly conservative). All of this was done to crash the Trump economy just before --the election, and even that was not enough--they had to cheat. For those who sought this, a few million deaths were a small price to pay.
But that isn't science, no matter what claims it made. It is the diabolical exploitation of technology for evil ends.
I went into Geology, because of all the disciplines, it interrelated strongly with the others: Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, and attempted to explain the events that took place in the shaping of this (and other) planets. I did not do so to the exclusion of The Almighty, but rather as a study of His handiwork.
All our suppositions made from data are, in fact, just that. Evolution, as a theory going back into the deep past, has more holes in it than a colander, simply because of the absence of transitional forms, and the unlikely necessity for quantum leaps across multiple biological (physiological and anatomic) aspects at once. Even one such change would be unlikely, but multiple simultaneous developments in just the shift from unicellular organisms to multicellular organisms is a stretch.
If I had to mark the time when the age of inquiry became polluted with politics melded with science to produce entire zeitgeists, it would be between Newton and Darwin, the latter used to justify political positions and the idea of linear development in humans and society.
The Flood was a reset, just as the asteroid which wiped out the majority of the fauna present in the Cretaceous, just as the Permian Extinction (still not well understood what did that), and likely others. In the last 40 million years (using commonly accepted time scales) several megafaunal assemblages have been wiped out--known only by fossilized remains.
The bottom line is that God can do what He wants, how He wants to do it, and we're just left guessing at the what, exactly, and when, by the scattered remnants we find. Intentionally, I believe, creation is, like The Creator, too vast to fully comprehend. It's like trying to understand a skyscraper from the construction debris, without ever getting a complete look at the finished product because it is simply too vast.
There are aspects of science which have been discovered and quantified. Which, simply, are.
The interpretations can be the province of scallywags and charlatans, and those who gladly seize upon those and distort their meaning for personal gain will be relentless, but they aren't searching for answers, they have theirs in hand and are using them to usurp power and get rich. They quit looking when they found what they wanted, and stopped searching for the whole truth.
Not saying some interpretations aren't useful, but there is a profit motive behind that more often than not, whether it be locating oil or ore bodies, or other resources, or even trying to build on a solid foundation. But when science is used as a poster child for politics, it immediately becomes suspect.
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