hmm...where to start...
1) Science is not perfect. Theories are theories, not bound answers set in stone tablets. Even scientific "laws" can be tweaked, changed, as new evidience, discoveries, and inventions arrive.
2) Science is for the happiness of humanity, whatever that means. Science is only one (of many) means to an end--to find out how, and possibly why, the world around us works, from quarks and nuclei to elephants and tsunamis. And pure science is only a process of investigation--the people who use it have viewpoints and try to give certain experiments "meaning", usually to their own end.
3) As was stated above...what's the point in having the answers handed to you. The enjoyment is in the journey.
4) Humanity getting "worser" is only an opinion. In my opinion, be it ever so humble, humanity has never been better off. We have cured diseases that wiped out entire populations of people just a few tens (or hundreds, depending on how far you want to go back) of years ago. We no longer have to live within walking distance of where we work. We don't have to hunt or grow our own food just to survive. We can communicate and exchange ideas with people instantaneously (or nearly) on the other side of the world. I'd go on, but I'm starting to bore, I can tell...
5) You make "humanity" and "human life" sound like it has a collective mind of its own. There are a myriad number of reasons people injure and kill one another, and very rarely are they related to "science"...more often they tend to be related to religion. Jews and Muslims, Muslims and Christians, and Christians and Jews have been killing each other since they were using rocks and clubs and iron swords as weapons--people don't need technological advancement to hate each other.
6) Why we suffer what? Humanity? Science? Suffering? God? Which god?
7) Inventions are generally technology, not science. Technology is the application (and sometime exploitation) of some scientific theory, experiment, knowledge, etc. The science behind something is blameless--it is the people who want to use, misuse, or abuse the scientific applications who should be blamed.
There are hundreds of other points that could be made in response to this "question", as ubiquitous as it is, but I'm starting to get preachy and long-winded, and my students hate that...hmm, another correlation to relgion...sorry.
2006-07-17 21:00:02
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answered by the_way_of_the_turtle 6
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I don't think anyone has claimed that science, that is human knowledge, comes anywhere near being perfect.
The advancement of knowledge in science and engineering has created many marvels and many horrors. It continues at a quickening pace. But knowledge is not wisdom
Wisdom is the realization that just because we are capable of doing something does not mean that we should do that something. Wisdom considers the possible consequences of actions. At the root of many of mankind's troubles is a lack of wisdom as well as outright evil in the sense that actions for some sort of gain or advantage are taken with no regard for the consequences to others.
Wisdom comes only with experience. While history is full of lessons regarding the outcomes of particular kinds of adventures, the old adage that those who do not know (or understand) history are doomed to repeat it. Part of this is the ignorance of youth, overweening pride on the part of leaders (we know better than those who came before), and extreme short-sightedness in evaluating situations.
Unfortunately we cannot easily change the nature of mankind. This fact is an argument for not trusting power to be solely in the hands of an individual person, group, party or nation. This is the impetus for international organizations such as the UN, imperfect as it may be. Because perhaps collectively wisdom may be achieved.
2006-07-17 20:19:39
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answered by Raymond C 4
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Why interior the international could an all efficient being use this style of wasteful, random and BRUTAL way alongside with evolution, to create something. that is ridiculous. technology has already shown that each and every of the parable Gods are only that, myths. that is only that folk can no longer enable bypass of the eternal life delusion. Edit: The Bible stated that a magic guy interior the sky made guy from airborne dirt and airborne dirt and mud and female from spareribs, with slightly God halitosis jumbled in. that's no longer even remotely close to to what evolution includes. The Bible additionally had each and every thing thoroughly backwards and not something interior the right order. It additionally says that bats are birds and the sunlight revolves around the flat earth, which in turn is supported on pillars. that is greater effective than obtrusive that ignorant barbarians wrote the Bible and did no longer have the slightest clue approximately technology or how we've been given right here. Edit: The earth isn't even close to to being appropriate. we are continuously being bombarded with deadly radiation from area and our magnetic field is what KINDA protects us (those that don't die from epidermis maximum cancers), besides the undeniable fact that it somewhat is gradually getting weaker. What area is deadly radiation is in a "appropriate" plan? it somewhat is only considered one of thousands and thousands of examples how the earth is rarely no longer appropriate. specific it somewhat works and why does no longer it if we developed into this style of international. All that "little closer, or slightly farther" BS isn't genuine. there's a goldilocks zone it somewhat is thousands and thousands of miles each and every way the place shall we nonetheless be extremely mushy. The sunlight gets warmer on a daily basis, so as that precise there proves the "appropriate" distance concept incorrect. sooner or later the sunlight will improve and engulf the earth. How interior the hell is that appropriate?
2016-12-10 09:19:21
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answered by ? 3
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Science is a system for gaining and organizing knowledge. The idea is that we see things, have questions, and want to learn, and science allows us a discipline that helps us to do that.
Your question assumes that science is some sort of cure for suffering, but it is not. Science brings understanding. Suffering is often a result of human nature and conflict. Science provides us with the tools to make life better, or to gain understanding, but knowledge makes us capable of destruction as well as creation.
Science cannot cure evil, and should not be thought of as a tool of good or evil. Facts are neither good nor evil, they simply are. Only the moral resolution of people has a chance of solving human problems that are outside of the range of science.
2006-07-17 20:13:33
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answered by aichip_mark2 3
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Science is perfect? Where did you get that idea? Certainly not from any scientist. Our work is ongoing and changes every time we learn something new. You wouldn't even be able to make such a silly statement on your computer if there was no science to make your computer possible. God DOES give us help. Enough. You sound like a silly child.
2006-07-17 20:06:21
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answered by Anonymous
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Science has never pretended to be perfect.
Science recognises that is not perfect and changes its views according to new discoveries.
The church on the other hand, does pretend that it's perfect, then changes its views, then says that they're doing exactly the same thing.
Also, and this directed at both sides of the debate: STOP REHASHING THE OLD TIRED ARGUMENTS. NOBODY IS GOING TO THINK THAT YOU'RE CLEVER BY SAYING THE SAME THING 30,000 PEOPLE HAVE SAID BEFORE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-07-17 20:05:13
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answered by tgypoi 5
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People try to use Science to discredit the idea of God - But what if God 'created' Science. I do not believe that we will ever understand everything. God is mysterious
2006-07-17 19:57:40
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answered by ronnie82 2
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God has created science(as man has created science and man is a creation of God) so at each and every step it needs His help.
2006-07-17 20:15:14
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answered by sunil kumar shah 2
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isnt this proof there is no god, if hes perfect and we are in his image, where did he screw up, geeze, wake up
2006-07-17 19:56:43
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answered by Anonymous
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umm, where would be the FUN of having something handed to you?
2006-07-17 19:57:47
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answered by AdamKadmon 7
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