It is important to know what is Grandma science, all about.
It refers to excessive simplification that results in distortion in facts. it could an answer to a scientific question or an involved spiritual one. In its original form the common man could never grasp the idea.
It is told with a good intention that the common man with limited knowledge and
highly limited ability to think, is reasonably satisfied with the reply.
This will explain how we have accumulated all the wrong knowledge or incomplete knowledge that we accumulate in our culture.
Religious leaders & Science
There was a time when religious leaders were considered as the most knowledgeable in the society. The common man approached them to clear his doubts and to that which sought he know. With very little to no knowledge these religious people spread distorted truth and persecuted those who spoke the truth.
The history has it that religious men considered men-of-science as anti-god and anti religion. Men of Science were persecuted by Religious men for telling the truth.
Spiritualists also use Grandma Science intentionally in order to satisfy an inquirer in their opinion, is not yet ready to understand the real answer to questions asked.
In every culture there are explanations about God.
These would often remind me of a boyhood experience that my father told me in later years.
I asked my dad, an engineer, to tell me about rain. Perhaps a rain would have come in the way of a plan for an outing or what ever.
My father started explaining me in great detail. The way the sea water evoporate due to heat from the Sun and becoming a rain bearing cloud. Then the wind that moves places. Subsequently condensation making the rain.
Obviously, all these explanations would have confused me rather than answering my question.
My grandma, who never had a formal education must have watched me and understood my trouble.
She call me close to her and explained the process or reason for the rain in absolutely simple terms.
She explained, “ There is the God, up above the cloud and deep into the sky. So deep you cannot see him. When he urinates, it rains”. At that age the Grandma’s explanation would have convinced me than the explanation of my father, a learned person.
Subsequently we will refer this story as Gradma science. This refers to any over simplified explanation for expressions in both Scientific and Spiritual