Science and Truth Cannot Be Stifled

                         SCIENCE AND TRUTH CANNOT BE STIFLED

It is perturbing that there are people in our city, including educators and pastors, espousing and promoting the global pandemic as a hoax. No one has ever died of a hoax, but this virus has already killed many. The death toll in Italy rose to over 4000 today. In times of such global health emergencies, no one should manufacture and advance fictitious stories. It is unethical.

This is a nation that leads the world in science and technology. Science must not be stifled. History teaches us that there have been instances in which science was silenced. This has happened in both secular and sacred realms of human life. Such stifling arose from the root of certain cherished, preconceived ideological notions which they refused to submit to test.

There were times in which scientists, whose spectacular achievements we celebrate today, were either imprisoned or ejected from their jobs. They have suffered, as they worked in a totalitarian context. Gladly, those days are over, and errors are corrected. We cannot return to such days when truth was suppressed, and science was muted.

A major concern of the present time in America is the question of the inherent freedom of science. Science, like any other field of knowledge, is a divine gift to humanity. Its ultimate source is God. Those who attempt to stifle the fruits of science are hurting the welfare of humanity. It is prudent to maintain its legitimate sovereignty. To refuse to do so is to resort to irrationality in an age of reason. 

Science and Truth Cannot be Stifled