Illiteracy: Definition And Why

Illiteracy: Definition and why

Science as a set of ideas that through verification seeks the objectivity of truth could be confused with any process that has some similarity to its principles and characteristics. Ideas could resemble a scientific understanding of reality, but would not provide coherence, or clarity in their approach. Scientific illiteracy is the denomination that have been granted to the misunderstandings that have been attributed to science, since dogmatism, ignorance and religion would be related. Although the existence of science is known, it is overlooked and its utility is not taken into account.

The explanation of a natural phenomenon as a divine punishment is an example of scientific illiteracy that surrounds human thought. However, science does not attempt to discredit beliefs, but to indicate more precisely the functioning of reality, avoiding falling into mythological models. Scientific laws as part of the foundation and contrast that facilitate the verification and understanding of an idea are not dogmas, since these are restrictive. To demonstrate the unnecessary and inopportune incidence of cereijido dogmatism, it defines as a scientific one to everything that lacks doctrinal principles, however not to exaggerate in its proposal refers to pseudoscience. False scientific knowledge constitutes a risk to scientific knowledge because as Cereijido (2009) would say, "pseudoscience is a lot of nonsense sold as science". This could be disguised as arguments that try to be explanatory, however, they only overshadow the research that, according to the scientific method, could be carried out.

Returning to scientific illiteracy, it has been said that it can be linked to doctrines and beliefs, but they are also part of an "advertising" inserted in the human brain, since through sticky phrases as Cereijido says they are nothing more than imitations of innovation. With this idea, many scientific illiterates intend to insinuate scientific disability and attribute characteristics that science has not been attributed. For example, to affirm that science has failed and that is why it has not fulfilled its promises.

That science does not fail to say that there is an absolute truth, since even the same laws that have been confirmed for several years could be questioned, therefore, the theoretical contrast or observation would not have accommodated, which facilitate its verification. Nor has science promised anything, but provides hopes based on previous knowledge that has served society. Religion, for example, promises eternal life, but from the scientific perspective the average life is about 80 years.

Scientific illiteracy is also the result of ignorance. The human being has conformed that the rainbow has 7 colors, but has not set out to know where it is for sure that the decomposition of light travels so fast that it has limited itself to seeing what is between one color and another. The interpretation that the scientific illiterate can do is repressed, even by the external influence that has received through an education founded on the same religious doctrines that claim not to be questioned.

If religion works as an example to talk about scientific illiteracy, it refers to the "inability" to run reality based on objective and proven knowledge, but in the superiority with which the laws of religion have been raised, which is environmentallyIn their field they are promulgated as undoubted. Reconsider that religion is effectively part of knowledge, it could not be interpreted as an absolute reality and should not be belittled. But beyond that there was a spirit that allowed the conception of a child, there is a biological process that science analyzes carefully and is called pregnancy.

Scientific illiteracy could be complicated to eliminate because "Catholic religion has signs of its absolute rejection to tolerate analysis in its ranks". From the propagandist conception, this religion has a great influence on human thought capable of controlling it. In that sense, politics is also crucial in this illiteracy, because in first world countries there is a vast importance to intellectual production, while in others, they live from this same. Therefore, although it has been exemplified mostly with religion, scientific illiteracy is the product of the same human interests that need to manipulate human thought.