Science is often better at studying the present through observation rather than forecasting the future or determining the past. Extrapolations involving the future or past can have a number of assumptions and it is sometimes difficult to predict matters in a multiple variable situation. | Science is often better at studying the present through observation rather than forecasting the future or determining the past. Extrapolations involving the future or past can have a number of assumptions and it is sometimes difficult to predict matters in a multiple variable situation. |