• Question: if there was no science in the world would it still be the same as today?

    Asked by 289drgj44 to Abid, Donna, Sanjib, Thomas, Avril on 12 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Donna Johnson

      Donna Johnson answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      No, i don’t think so. Science has a definite way of looking at things in the scientific method (https://www.flickr.com/photos/neotsn/4947989561), observing, making hypotheses, experimenting etc and then refining hypotheses and this process leads to observations with evidence to back them up. It also allows us to be wrong, there is often conflicting data and in the end the side with the most evidence ‘wins’ or is considered right (at least until there’s more evidence to say otherwise). I think without science we wouldn’t have progressed as much as we have, especially in the medical field, for example these days we know some diseases are caused by bacteria rather than miasma/bad air (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory) and because we know this we can look for treatments directed at the bacteria.

    • Photo: Avril Tucker

      Avril Tucker answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      Science and maths are all around us! Without them we wouldn’t have so many of the things we take for granted today. And the stuff we did have we wouldn’t be able to understand. Take the engine in a car for example. Petrol makes the car go but it does this through chemical reactions. Even the toast you had for breakfast. A chemical reaction has occurred to change it from bread!

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