Do we live in the age of Scientific mythology?

In medieval times, religious teachings about our origin and existence in this planet were taken as the absolute truth across the entire planet, such that those people (more so philosophers and scientists) who tried to counter popular tenets of religious teachings were often persecuted. With time, however, scientific knowledge grew and the society began believing in scientific teachings, in some instances even doing away with some teachings of religion that have been proven as fallacies (for example the idea that the earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way round). Today, most of scientific teachings are widely accepted as true and absolute facts. Nevertheless, some ideas of science remain to be theories (for instance the big bang theory); scientific method has not proven them beyond reasonable doubt yet.

Like the medieval times society lived in the religious mythology era, do you think we live in the scientific mythology age, whereby some science theories might be proven by future generations as fallacies. Personally I strongly believe so.

 

What you're trying to describe are scientific theories, which amount to 'This is what we think is going on, we have exhaustively tested it yet nothing contradicts it, so we're using this as our explanation until something better comes along'. In common English, we often use 'theory' to have the same meaning as 'hypothesis' in science, which is just an educated guess. If you think the Big Bang Theory is just pure myth, remember that gravity is 'just a theory'.

As always, observation trumps theory. This is why the Greeks (or anyone who can see ships going beyond the horizon) were able to figure out the world isn't flat and had proposals of a heliocentric model (though they were apparently not as popular). I'm sure we'll learn new stuff as time goes on, but it's going to get increasingly esoteric.

I do think we have a lot of weird issues in popular culture related to everybody thinking they know anything about science when they really, truly don't, and just using it as an excuse to confirm their own biases, but that's another topic I suppose.