Explain how scientific knowledge or advances can both solve and create problems?

Answer 1

Scientific knowledge can create a problem if it is opposite to what peple believe in. It can solve a problem if the need is very important.

Answer 2

Using nuclear power as an example. Playing around with radioactivity has allowed us to utilise a new source of energy however, playing with it in another way lead to the invention of nuclear weapons.
To expand on this, weapons well they're always created to solve a problem (ie. neutralise the enemy) but nuclear bombs made for this reason cause massive destruction, eg Hiroshima.
The energy while great, causes the problem of what to do if a situation like Cherobyl happens. Or still, what to do while the land that is currently unihabitable because of radiation levels, etc

Answer 3

Here's an example: better medical technology can save lives, but at what cost? If it costs $1 million dollars to save one life, perhaps the life of a baby born three months too early, is that a good use of limited resources? Or would it be better to spend $1 million to save the lives of 100,000 children in Africa who will die of malaria unless they sleep under a mosquito net? Yet, if it's your baby, you want to save him/her, at any cost.