Does Science by its very Nature Undermine its Search Answers Obsolesce – No

I love this article title so much that I just had to write on it.

It is rare that I meet my equal in realm of verbal grandeur. While I do, in fact, possess the gift that is lauded as the very soul of wit, namely “brevity”, I see no reason to employ it gratuitously. Why educate with clear, simple words when one can dazzle the masses with assonance and create a masterpiece of meter and prose? Why deign to ask a question only to see it answered with cold, unforgiving facts or opinions that blaze with self-righteous subjectivity and offer no opportunity for endless equivocation (or astute alliteration)?

Bah! I say let us put forth those classic conundrums that invite an endless stream of quasi-intellectual suppositions. Moreover, let those suppositions strive not to provide answers. Answers are the quietus of questions, the death-knell of discussion. Listen carefully, dear reader, next time you present a solution. You may hear the anguished death cry of the question your answer has summarily terminated.

Usually, I troll the murky intellectual waters near the bottom of the proverbial pond of knowledge in which we at Helium swim like computer-literate goldfish. Only there, on the humanities channel, can I find topics worthy of my prodigious ponderings. Here at the science channel, I am too often disappointed by titles whose specificity precludes grandiose ramblings.

But this! I am in profound awe and can do naught but acknowledge myself outdone. “Does science, by it’s very nature, undermine its own answers and obsolesce itself?” Not only does the questioner have the verbal virtue to resurrect a verb so ancient that most of us have only laid eyes upon its derivative noun, “obsolescence”, he also has the originality to make it reflexive, showing both an expansive vocabulary and a daring creativity with which to employ it.

However, the choice of words is only the most superficial beauty of this question. The meaning, nestle inside the words like a jewel in a Faberge egg, is the truly elegant aspect. Awesome in its ambiguity, visionary for its very vagueness, one cannot read it and not feel ordained to obfuscate.

So does science, by it’s very nature, undermine its own answers and obsolesce itself? Who cares? With a topic that pretentious, you can write anything and sound smart.

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