re: Why does society worship science, but ignore natural selection in the human race?

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Reading that it makes me wonder why we spend millions every year protecting at-risk individuals for common viruses, terminally ill individuals and those with severe mental illness around that in many cases are not producing anything towards the betterment of society and in some cases are nothing more than a drain on resources?
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I am asking why we follow science blindly without question in many areas, including the response for the CCP Virus and the theory of evolution, but ignore natural selection and it’s importance to the ongoing survival of a species?

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Looks like you've completely misunderstood what natural selection means, and also how we evolved to where we are.

First, as a product of nature, we are natural, so whatever we do is also natural. Evolution has no direction or endgame, so if the course we're on is detrimental to our fitness, we will either evolve different traits or go extinct.

Second, given the fact that we are not the only species that lives in groups and protects one another, it seems unlikely that this tendency evolved in the form of a mental calculation of resource expenditure vs. societal benefit. More likely it is a deep-rooted desire or instinct to protect your own, and this extends to sacrificing everything we have up to and including our own lives to save someone else's. Pack life works for some species, while others live alone. It seems to have worked out well for us so far.