Lack Of Science Education In Our System

Lack Of Science Education In Our System

 I am always disturbed when I realize how inadequate most people's fundamental grasp of science is, especially amongst the religious faithful (sorry, but it's true).As great as the gap is between the rich and the poor, it seems to me the gap between the enlightened and the ignorant is even greater. Now I don't know if people are being willfully ignorant of basic scientific principles, or if they honestly aren't being taught them in school.

Regardless, the fact that people still question proven facts saddens me greatly.

Now, it is true we haven't proven *everything* with science (yet), but as our technologies advance, so do our discoveries and understanding of how the universe itself works. Take, for example, the fact we have proven the existence of the "Higgs-Boson" (also known as the God Particle). We would not have been able to prove it's existence 20 years ago, much less 100 years ago. The technology required to discover it didn't even exist yet.

I don't think anyone will refute the theory of gravity (unless you've recently observed someone literally floating up from the ground, and floating out into space - if you have, please share because as far as we know that is a physical impossibility).

Just as gravity holds us to the surface of the Earth, so do other forces govern how quantum particles work (quantum particles are the basic particles that make up electrons, protons and neutrons within the atoms of all matter).