just want to know what people think the world would be like without scientific method.
2007-05-01 10:24:28 · 37 answers · asked by tkessandoh 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Uneducated. Best case.
Learning and teaching is much easier and much more widespread thanks to scientific inventions like pencils, paper, moveable type, the printing press, computers, and the internet.
Underfed. Much more serious.
Agriculture and farming are sciences. Imagine if there were no crops, no hunting, no livestock. We would be limited to eating berries off bushes.
Unpopulated. Worst case.
The human race would have died out long ago from diseases and illnesses that medical science has either cured or found treatments for. Think Black Plague and dysentary.
2007-05-01 10:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It would be nearly impossible but I guess we could look into a part of the world where scientific method and science got into a fight and science got it's *** kicked: the middleast, or where it just never got there: a lot of Africa. So either viciously fundamentalist religious nutjobs who killed each other for the smallest of crimes (you know, the religious wholesome Old Testament way), or a bunch or tribesmen hunter gatherers that spent most of our lives in search of food and aquabbling over who gets to mate with the best females.
The population would also be way down, as sad as it sounds this might almost be better for some areas. If the medical revolution hadn't spread to so many less developed countries where they weren't smart enough to stop having sex on land that couldn't support 15 kids they wouldn't be starving nearly as bad. But as a whole the world would basically be in the sh*tter big time.
2007-05-01 10:39:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world would not exist if not for science. 1 + 1 = 2. Mathematics is a science. Biology, Chemistry, Physics... Without that understanding you would fail to grasp the things around you.
2007-05-01 10:33:59 · answer #3 · answered by Rothwyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world will never be without science--as long as men can think--probe--wonder--seek--there will always be science. For me the only problem is men start worshiping the instrument that could lead them closer to God
2007-05-01 10:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very biblical. The most recent occurrence of this in the Western world would have been the Dark Ages after the fall of Rome when the castle told you what you could do and the church told you what you could think.
2007-05-01 10:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by Dave P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have seen the world without science. Just take a look at Medieval Europe, if you'd like to see what it was like.
Of course there could still be reason, see classical Greece. I believe that would eventually lead toward Science.
2007-05-01 10:30:00 · answer #6 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Think Dark Ages.
2007-05-01 10:44:10 · answer #7 · answered by Kharm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without the study of science:
It would be like The Middle Ages - nobody would bother with education, and those who did would have their books and studies burned.
Without science:
There would be no life, no matter, and no universe.
2007-05-01 10:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by Superconductive Magnet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
w/ out sceince the world may have remaiined like that of the caveman days. We wouldn't explore the universe & we would live as they did before Christ.
2007-05-01 10:35:28 · answer #9 · answered by J Doe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yikes. There'd be a lot fewer of us. We'd be killed off by plagues and famine faster than you can say "In Jesus' Name!". Thousands of women would die in childbirth every year. Infant mortality rates would plummet. We'd still be burning witches... I mean - think back to the dark ages. That's what it would be like. We wouldn't have electricity. We wouldn't have refrigeration. I could go on and on...
2007-05-01 10:30:17 · answer #10 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋