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Asked by chrissybarr123 to Daniel, Derek, Ian, Phil, Upul on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: General. This question was also asked by james15.
Question: if it wasnt for science then do u think we will still be like we are today
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Derek Mann answered on 16 Jun 2010:
There is no way we would be as we are today without science. Certainly no clean water, no fridges or freezers to keep our perishable foods good to eat, no mobile phones, no computers or cars or planes etc, all of which are a direct benefit of science. We would also have much shorter life spans as without the advances in biomedical sciences many of us would die of infections very early in our lives.
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Ian Sillett answered on 17 Jun 2010:
No, definitely not. Have a look around where you are now and look at all the things that science has given you in terms of technology for a start. Cars, computers, long life milk, television, dvds, electricity….
Science is all about discovery and explaining and without it, we’d all be pretty boring.
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Daniel Mietchen answered on 20 Jun 2010:
No. Science — and the transfer of its findings into the technical and commercial worlds — has certainly had an impact on the history of human civilization on multiple levels. Not to the pride of our species, many of these were initially related to warfare (e.g. improved weaponry to attack, or improved architecture to defend), though this has shifted since “scientist” became a profession.
When I was at school, such “what if” questions in relation to history were not regarded highly, but I often found them entertaining myself, and in recent years, even historians and history teachers have approached the subject with a more varied response (example). From what I have seen of this counterfactual branch of the study of history, technological factors were amongst the major ones in events that “made history”, along with the weather and other forms of chance.
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