Science...is it overrated?

I wrote this for some essay competition ... else I 'd never dwell upon such a serious topic....

Why are we the humans so proud to be what we are?

What are we but skin and bones?What are we but flesh and blood?What are we but one of the many mortal species that come and go?What is it that sets us apart from the rest?

The answer to this is that somewhere deep within each one of us there is a grain called science embedded very firmly.There is a flame that maybe short of oxygen, that apparently seems to be dying but is definitely there,this flame is the spirit to fathom into untroubled waters,to risk everything in search of something not even thought of.

What is this 'science', why has it gained such mammoth proportions in our lives that this very age is being termed as the age of 'science'?

Science is nothing but the quest for truth........the desire to unravel the mysteries of nature, to solve the puzzles of life, to systematically define the obscure events that occur around us.

Science is 'logic'....It is a systematic method to approach complex problems.....to approach life.......A 5 year old kid who sits down in a puddle of mud on a rainy day and finally figures out how to tie his shoe lace is a scientist......A sweeper who discovers the angle at which the broomstick should be held for best results is a good student of science. A mother who discovers the way her child should be held so that it has the soundest of sleeps is being scientific..

Science is 'truth'......What makes a human, human is the fact that he thinks.....Science has got its own competitors claiming to be better and more useful fields of human intellectual activity...namely art,philosophy and religion.......'Art' is guileless and beautiful...it claims to be nothing but an illusion ...'Philosophy ' is not opposed to science, rather it behaves as if it were a science.....it uses the same logical reasoning just that it sometimes claims that the answer to everything lies in one philosophy and gets rigid..

'Religion' is the sweet sugar coated candy that is served to minds seeking solace, seeking the assurance that we don't ned to struggle and break the queau to know the truth, seeking the revelation that we can't change our destiny.....seeking the complaissance that there is more to life than this life,....that death is not the end of the road for a human,.......'Religion' is for those who want to be showed the way, the ones who don't think it worthy to dirty their hands to carve the path and would rather walk on a safe and frequently used highway..'Religion' does not consider science to be its friend,because science holds no belief,it has no reservations, it's free & systematic.......in science there is a reason and explanation for every step,whereas in religion all you have to do is believe and follow....

The man who made the first fire may have been burnt alive in it for doing something evil...The man who roasted the first chunk of meat in this fire may have been charred for mixing food with evil and then these people may have tasted and relished this man's flesh....That is science for you...It is the tough road, wherein the ones who carve it are are rigorously punished and treated as outcasts and a century later every single of the followers is treading down this road......Science is today's Apocrypha and tomorrow's common sense.......

Science always takes you one step forward.It is man's quest to understand everything in this matrix.It has always been treated skeptically...people are still wary of it, least knowing that it was science that made man make those sharp spears that saved him from those hungry carnivores, it is this science that is still saving him from the various calamities.....and it is this SCIENCE that will always come to its rescue........

He who thinks is a son of a man .......and he who thinks in the search of truth is a son of science...

Science....man's only tool and man's only weapon against time and space......