2006-08-25 07:50:56 · 23 answers · asked by parepidemos_00 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
umm....what?
There's other aspects of science besides evolution..
2006-08-25 07:52:28 · answer #1 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's only in the last 150 years that Science has become inextricable entwined with Darwinism, Humanism and Atheism...
Here's some scientists who changed the world, long before Evolution was even a concept:
* Pythagoras (581-497 B.C.)
* Archimedes (287-212)
* Ptolemy (90-168 A.D.)
* Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
* Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543)
* Galileo (1564-1642)
* Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
* Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
* Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
* Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
* James Watt (1736-1819)
Cheerio! =)
2006-08-25 15:07:15 · answer #2 · answered by Julia A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a branch of science, sure, but science is not like an automobile that cannot move without wheels. It is more like a giant sphere rolling down an infinitely long, steep slope, and evolution is just a piece of that sphere.
Without evolution, the heated debate between Christianity and science would have missed a few harsh periods of uproar, but this too is a constant.
2006-08-25 14:56:36 · answer #3 · answered by minstrel_of_munificence 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean? The study of science existed for centuries before any mention of evolution came along. What are you classifying as "science" - are we talking about math, physics, gravity, astronomy, biology, chemistry? Science covers everything from the life cycle of a butterfly to the length of light waves. So I guess my answer is, no, all of this would not have been dead in the water.
2006-08-25 14:57:33 · answer #4 · answered by ontario ashley 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution means to change or to adapt, particularly to a surrounding environment. To enhance. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&defl=en&q=define:evolution&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
The world turns and changes daily. And life has to change to survive , much less enhance itself. So evolution is not really a human invention. It is a human term describing something that happens.
If it were not for science the observation of evolution may never had been accepted by those in control, as it seems to weaken the basic premises of the ultra religious.
But even without the blessing of churches, the practice of the scientific method; which is merely questioning, reasoning out the question, trying to prove or disprove the supposed answer, and then letting everyone know the results and how they were "proved; existed even in the Egyptian times and continues today.
Only the truly clueless would think that terms like science and evolution are in competion with the likes of religion. It may be two different ways to answer the same question, but most scientists see themselves as using the methods of science as a tool to aquire what religion promises, for us to become one with our Creator, to become more God-like, to progress as all bibles encourage. If we were made in the image of God, why wouldn't we want to increase our knowledge so as to be closer to Him.
In a way the whole science vs religion questions are just sematics, word games. The use of tools and logic has always been man's greatest adaptation. Too bad we confuse ourselves with our words.
2006-08-25 15:09:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by science. Science as a method would be as strong as it has been throughout history. Science as a philosophy (naturalism) would certainly still be struggling to convince people they were right. Darwin, Marx, Freud just gave the philosophy side of science a boost, they never effected the methodology.
2006-08-25 14:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by westfallwatergardens 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No more than alchemy. They separated the superstition from the proven chemical methods operation til it burgeoned into a full science. Real science develops. Quack theories are like social clubs. Depending on merit, they die out with the constituency.
2006-08-25 14:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please try to have your question make sense next time. Science was around way before the theory of evolution. We would still be apes without science.
2006-08-25 15:00:03 · answer #8 · answered by Scott P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean without evolution? Evolution is still just a Theory. It has not and cannot and will not be proven.
2006-08-25 14:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by zeuster2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Without evolution we would not have the sentient capabilities to consider spiritual things. Moot point.
2006-08-25 14:54:14 · answer #10 · answered by annie*bananie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science isn't exclusively about evolution...
2006-08-25 14:53:14 · answer #11 · answered by Adam G 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋