The philosophy of the western world posits that an external, objective world interacts with us through scientific experiment, thus science creates objectively true laws. Other European philosophy holds, correctly in my opinion, that talk of an objective reality is beyond experience and is thus meaningless babble.
Moreover, a scientific experiment is no more objective than a child’s attempt to walk. To Know is not a high ideal, it is an instinct born of our particular way of survival, and is thus survival-centered. Science is our Elephant Trunk, our Giraffe Neck, and since it is inherently inadequate, it is a belief system, a set of interconnected ideas-about-things. In terms of European, Post-Hegelian philosophy, it is an ideology.
All ideologies are subject to chaotic dissolution, every ideology, whether science, Christianity or whatever, seeks to and succeeds in creating a coherent view of reality that satisfies its believers.
The problem is that there is inevitably a gulf between the ideology and reality. Ideologies are fixed; reality is fluid. Thus, all ideologies are subject to readjustment when a new discovery challenges the existing point of view.
The rediscovery of the Greek text of the New Testament and the discovery of the non-existence of the Ether each corroded the existing ideologies of their day.
The Christian world responded with Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Science responded with Einsteinium relativity. These new elements are Chaotic. The extent to which the ideology can reform depends on how deep the chaotic element bites into the ideological structure.
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