Petros2015
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Hmm. Well, science is really good at enabling human nature with power over it's environment.
It doesn't do much to change human nature (I guess?)
So to the degree that nature is good, we are OK. To the degree that it is bad, not so much. If it enables us to make more Mess than it enables us to clean up, or if we use it to make more Mess than we do to clean up Mess, we'll be buried up to our necks in Mess.
Would that be a failure of Science, or a failure of Us?
Forensics and crime related science have a little influence on human nature; science makes proofs of guilt more feasible (closed circuit TV cams, fingerprinting, dna testing etc). It helps to identify the facts of what happened. Doesn't really change the nature of a criminal though, just kind of forces it into the shadows because it's afraid of committing a crime it can't get away with.
I would like to see Science make a better lie detector; I don't think they will ever get it perfect, but something much less fallible than we have now would be huge for the court (and possibly the political) system. Imagine if your cell phone had an app, you could point it at someone and have a 90% confidence if they were misleading you. That would be game changing across all levels of society and interpersonal relationships. I like science in that it is an attempt to discover truth, and then make some use or predictions based on the truths discovered.
I like light bulbs. Light bulbs are good. I guess. But I don't really see the powerstations and transformers and consumption of natural resources that go into them though. Took some coal miners with black lung to bring them to us? I'm sure it's mindboggling to consider what went into making my laptop and then delivering the power to it through the wall outlet.
Biggest failure? I think it is mostly about discovering the facts and physical laws of the universe God made and finding interesting things that you can do within the boundaries of those laws. So, there aren't really any failures for science. It's a learning process. You get something wrong, you admit it, you move on.
If you don't, that's a failed Scientist, not failed Science.
Some laws seem to be speed of light, gravity. We don't break these laws, but try to work within them. An anti-gravity belt would be pretty cool; warp drive. At that point we would be breaking laws or finding exceptions to them, something we could do that would give us a free pass from them. I doubt we'll get there though. But we'll see.
It doesn't do much to change human nature (I guess?)
So to the degree that nature is good, we are OK. To the degree that it is bad, not so much. If it enables us to make more Mess than it enables us to clean up, or if we use it to make more Mess than we do to clean up Mess, we'll be buried up to our necks in Mess.
Would that be a failure of Science, or a failure of Us?
Forensics and crime related science have a little influence on human nature; science makes proofs of guilt more feasible (closed circuit TV cams, fingerprinting, dna testing etc). It helps to identify the facts of what happened. Doesn't really change the nature of a criminal though, just kind of forces it into the shadows because it's afraid of committing a crime it can't get away with.
I would like to see Science make a better lie detector; I don't think they will ever get it perfect, but something much less fallible than we have now would be huge for the court (and possibly the political) system. Imagine if your cell phone had an app, you could point it at someone and have a 90% confidence if they were misleading you. That would be game changing across all levels of society and interpersonal relationships. I like science in that it is an attempt to discover truth, and then make some use or predictions based on the truths discovered.
I like light bulbs. Light bulbs are good. I guess. But I don't really see the powerstations and transformers and consumption of natural resources that go into them though. Took some coal miners with black lung to bring them to us? I'm sure it's mindboggling to consider what went into making my laptop and then delivering the power to it through the wall outlet.
Biggest failure? I think it is mostly about discovering the facts and physical laws of the universe God made and finding interesting things that you can do within the boundaries of those laws. So, there aren't really any failures for science. It's a learning process. You get something wrong, you admit it, you move on.
If you don't, that's a failed Scientist, not failed Science.
Some laws seem to be speed of light, gravity. We don't break these laws, but try to work within them. An anti-gravity belt would be pretty cool; warp drive. At that point we would be breaking laws or finding exceptions to them, something we could do that would give us a free pass from them. I doubt we'll get there though. But we'll see.
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