What kind of world we'd have today if we based the whole mankind CIVILIZATION on MAGIC & MIRACLE... and not based on SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY?
Wouldn't now we have a better world... or worse? What's your reason and argument then?
2006-07-15 04:51:55 · 18 answers · asked by Professor Franklin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Civilization was for a time based on magic and miracles. What is magic but science yet unexplained? Heck back in the 60's with the original star trek they had communicators and lasers. Now my Samsung cell phone resembles them and we have all forms of lasers. We are going back to herbal remedies over synthetics, and before many compounds there were healers that used herbs and oils for healing ( some were called witches). It is coming full circle.
2006-07-26 07:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by ldyrhiannon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A lot of science fiction is now science fact, without imagination and fantasy our world would not have survived , unfortunately there are a lot of people out there who actually are very ill willed and sometimes they are also pretty powerful...figures right...so they have been able to control the industries for ages , like drug and oil companies and I do believe they have a lot of control over our technology , which is why they don't build cars that last and cure diseases even tho they are capable of it...it is more beneficial not to ...sad but very true most of all because knowledge unshared is just useless information.
2006-07-29 00:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by Roxy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to realize that magic & miracles ARE science & technologogy! Truth! It is all a matter of knowledge, faith, creed, culture and PROVABILITY. Everything starts as a belief... logically based or not. Science IS a belief system as much as any other belief system. Faith cannot be proven... only facts (historical, et al.) can be proven. Remember...someone was looking to prove what they believed when the discovery of the atom came about, as with gravity. The atom existed before it was discovered... somebody, somewhere believes that there is "more to this". And one day, someone will prove them right or wrong.
2006-07-26 09:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by debkhan_6 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether the world would be better or worse is an unknown. If magic and miracles were the basis to our existence then I have many issues with God. (If he exists). I'd ask why he lets children starve to death? Why he lets people war on one another? Why the bible is filled with hatred and killing yet he wants us to put him on a pedestal. Of course if magic was part of the deal, I suppose I'd have the power to fix everything God screwed up, so I'd do it.
2006-07-28 13:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by The Mick "7" 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, to some extent we are still rooted in magic and miracles from the Bible era. But there is certain "magic" in quantum mechanics that has us scratching our heads. QM goes beyond the normal laws we are used to. At this moment it looks magical, but eventually we will understand it.
So, to answer your question, look at all the tribes in Africa and South America. Their society is based on superstition and magic, and they have been doing fine for tens of thousands of years. So that might give you a clue.
2006-07-15 04:57:43 · answer #5 · answered by laura_bush_is_fetching 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about it this way - at a certain point, Science & Technology BECOMES INDISTIGUISHABLE from Magic & Miracle ( s ). I believe Arthur C. Clarke said something similiar. I think we need both. & the term " miracle " can be open to interpretation.
2006-07-26 17:16:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We'd still be living in mud huts.
And I wouldn't be typing right now. The Internet requires science and technology, not spells and incantations.
2006-07-15 04:56:22 · answer #7 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You never know. One man's magic and miracle is another man's science and technology
2006-07-26 04:12:22 · answer #8 · answered by Dutch58 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably better, we wouldn't have to worry about being nuked ,thats for sure. Less people and no pollution. We know that we wouldn't be keeping sick people alive past their 'pull date' and we'd all be healthy and in shape out looking for food and not geting as much meat and really working for it all.
2006-07-27 16:46:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we would die
even the bible say "don't be a fool" in order for god to help us we have to help ourselves.He created the brain to think and hands to use.If you are thirsty he gave us commen sense to dig a hole and get water out of the ground if we sat around waiting for rain you would be dumb and dead.(I don't think god like stupidity) Technology helps us, waiting for a miracle will get you no where.
2006-07-27 18:03:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋