On Science and Morality: Exploring the Deeper Issues

A great many people assume that science, in its barest form, is moral. It is not. Nor is it immoral, as many fundamentalists would have you believe. Science is instead amoral; as in, it has no distinct morality. It is not a set of beliefs, nor is is a person, it is not a prophet, nor is it anything with sentient mind. Science, in its barest form, is a process, and a tool. It does not make people better, and it does not make them worse, it merely provides them with a means to explore their universe, and create tools based off what they discover. The process follows the route shown in the picture below.
The scientific method is not a set system of beliefs, is is a way of gathering data, making hypotheses, and testing them until they are true beyond all doubt. However, once a theory is accepted, its position is not guaranteed. If future scientists discover evidence that disproves it, than it either changes to accommodate new evidence or is thrown away.
What science does give us, is a rapid progression of technology, that doubles in complexity roughly every ten years.This gives us a great many tools, which can create or destroy, harm or heal, or any number of things.  However, though these tools can be used for good or ill, you will find that a great many are used to help humanity. Advances in biology allow us to both cure smallpox and weaponize it, but today, you will find not a world spanning über-plauge, but instead that we have removed it from the face of the earth. Though science does produce many things that could cause great harm, they are generally outnumbered by the things that help people. Modern medicine saves lives. Modern geology helps predict earthquakes, Modern meteorology helps predict hurricanes and tornadoes. Hell, even nuclear science has given us medical treatments using radium.
 
The bottom line is, science isn't perfect, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is who uses it, and how they use the fruits of their labor.

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