2006-09-06 10:14:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Science is a method used to study the world around us, and it uses methodological naturalism. What that means is that the way we look at things and study them is limited to non-supernatural explanations.
Science does not study the supernatural...saying 'it was magic' might sound like a good answer, but it is useless to science.
It affects our live in many ways, the electric lights to the computers to the inoculations to the cars we drive to the planes to spacecraft.
What science has done is searched for answers without invoking the supernatural, and hence all the progress of the last couple of centuries. This knowledge frightens some people, and they try to corrupt and belittle it...but there is no denying the success the scientific method has enjoyed. Not revelation, prophecy, prayers, chanting, ouji boards or crystal balls have been as effective as science. Which is why it is so powerful: It works.
2006-09-07 20:42:08 · answer #1 · answered by RjKardo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science includes all empirical knowledge, i.e. all that is known by observation. Basically, a scientist poses a hypothesis and conducts an experiment to prove his/her theory. The experiment is intended to demonstrate a causal relationship that was previously not known or clearly established. Therefore if a cause and effect relationship is proven by repeatably observing the same results, then a scientific theory is born. Unfortunately science is not absolute in that the theories about life are constantly changing and evolving as new theories are proven.
2006-09-06 17:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by Cary Grant 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything you touch that is not currently growing is due to science, and much that is growing.
Science is a formal method for creating theories based on evidence to explain things that exist and happen around us.
2006-09-06 17:17:31 · answer #3 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science is knowledge of a subject, or a group of subjects , gained and verified by exact observation and correct thinking,
Can we say 'the sum of universal knowledge'.
2006-09-10 16:48:21 · answer #4 · answered by Featherman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the study of everything around us. Science is chemistry, biology, astronomy, anatomy. Science is the study of life basically.
2006-09-06 17:16:42 · answer #5 · answered by Nick K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋