Shouldn’t modern science be renamed as so-called science?

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so the word science means to know whereas we see that science as it exists now it does not give us proper knowledge especially knowledge about origin, value, purpose so shouldn’t we remain science as so called science and spiritual the devotees they are the actual real scientists yes that’s true in fact there is increasingly a differentiation between science and scientism scientism is scientific imperialism science made into an ideology and scientism is the idea that science can give all knowledge and science alone can give all knowledge so basically when science puts on a halo of omniscience around it a halo of omniscience that science can know everything that is scientism that is not science and the biggest the fundamental problem is scientism that science can give us all knowledge this proposition itself is unscientific because how can anyone what is the scientific experiment to prove that science can give all knowledge so the point which I am making is again this is a nomenclature Newton himself never called himself a scientist he called himself a natural theologian or natural philosopher it is in the 18th century towards the end of the 18th century that the word scientist started being used for the people who were researching into nature and its workings so yeah it is not an accurate word and we can try to change the usage of the word also over a period of time but sometimes words have some functional meanings and trying to fight the usage of that word becomes a big battle in itself so you may just use that word and point out the limitation actually Prabhupada he used the word avatar he used the word incarnation and the word incarnation if you see it has a root karma, karma means flesh and the word incarnation was used originally for Jesus Jesus is, there are Christian ideas, God descended as his son and God came in flesh so incarnation literally means to come in flesh, that’s how we have the word reincarnation, to come again in flesh now Prabhupada used the word reincarnation but then Prabhupada made it clear that actually Krishna does not come in a material world so there are terms and there are concepts concepts are mental terms are verbal so if you consider like there is a big suitcase and the suitcase is like the concept the handle for moving the suitcase is the term so terms give the handle to the suitcase to the suitcase that is the concept sometimes the same suitcase may have 2-3 different handles also and the important thing is that we may try to rename the term that can be done but the important thing is to make sure that this handle is attached to this suitcase, this handle is not attached to that suitcase so make sure what the concept underlying is being talked about, so if you clarify the concept then things will move onwards thank you so what about