What would this world be like if science had never been discovered?

Question

MattJ- Science is the controlled method of inquiry using hypothesis, experimentation and analysis of data to form more experiments to test further hypotheses. When the first early human used a rock as a tool, he probably thanked the sky god for giving him the idea and figured that if he sacrificed a goat to the sky he would come up with more ideas. This is not science but I gave your answer a thumbs up anyways because I understand your point.

You all think you are so ingenious for knowing that science was not discovered. I'm sooo impressed. Not. Insert "scientific method" then I don't care. Look it up on wikipedia, the formal process of science did not take shape in prehistoric times.

Answer 1

Depends on what level of science you're talking about. Clubs, spears and weapons are all an application of scientific principles even if those principles were not formalized and understood.

I suppose you could conjecture that we would be running around trying to use alchemy, spells and thinking that the world was flat and the sun revolved around us.

Answer 2

Science is not an ENTITY, it is a method of answering questions about how the universe works.

There are steps to scientific method.
I think that you personally, haven't discovered scientific method to ask this.

This question is inappropriate for the Religion and Spirituality section entirely.

If scientific method were not used, you wouldn't be using this computer to ask this illogic question.
Computers are a product of application of several scientific theories of math and physics.

edit: after your additional details..to wonder why you worded your question as " if science had never been discovered" if you understand that it is a method of inquiry. Is this a trolling question? Did I swallow hook, line and sinker?

Answer 3

Science wasnt "discovered". The process of trying to figure out what our world is all about is a natural, logical phenomenon.
No one turned over a rock and said "Hey look, I found science!"
If you want to know what the world would be like without science,
go stand in a street in Arabia and watch the religious police murder someone because she isnt wearing the right headgear.

Answer 4

Science was not discovered. It dates back, as far as I know, to the time of the Greek philosophers, including Socrates and others who began to question life and the mind from whose treatises arose, later on the scientific method, divided between the so called empiricism and rationalism.

Answer 5

Science is simply the logic, practice, and study of understanding the order around us. If we had no understanding then this world would indeed be chaotic.

As Defined by the Dictionary:

1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
3. any of the branches of natural or physical science.
4. systematized knowledge in general.
5. knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
6. a particular branch of knowledge.
7. skill, esp. reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency.


Regardless of when that name came to be, or how it came to be, science is simply the way that we systematically come to understand a natural principal.

Answer 6

science was not "discovered", but rather evolved from the desire to understand who we are, where we came from, and how things work. if not for the scientific method being developed, we would still be living in caves eating nuts and berries and moving from place to place as the food supply dwindled...

Answer 7

We would probably be living closer to nature like the Native Americans. We would have used natural herbs for medicine. The people would have been more spiritual and less practical.

Science always leads to technology. And without technology we would live in multiple nature villages without electricity. Humans would have adapted more to the environment and less concerned about building shopping malls and more concerned about the preservation of the people.

Answer 8

that's not even possible. science is simply the search for answers coupled with the development of technology. the moment early man used a rock to smash something, science was born.

No, what you are describing is scientific METHOD, not science itself.

Answer 9

Science is not a discovery , it's knowledge of our surroundings . There is no way that science could not have been "discovered " .

Answer 10

We would all be living under the stars, collecting berries and hunting wild beasts (and eating them raw because of the lack of fire).