Science continues to amaze me the more I learn about it. It blows my mind. Even in the last 60 years, just to think how far we have come, from landing of the moon, to developing technology that 40 years ago would have been depicted in sci-fi movies as fiction.
There is now an opposing possibility to religion. For years, religion ruled the world, and apart from the different kinds of religion, there was not really any other options. Now, scientists have questioned the existence of god, and built on this question by such ideas as the big bang theory.
I am surprised first and foremost, about how science even began. The first ever scientific geniuses who began questioning the environment around them. How with such little knowledge of the world were they able to come up with such amazing theories?
What surprises me further, is that the more the human race goes on, the more we discover and the more we learn about the world. We learn new things every day, whether its discovering a new star, or the latest iphone, or even finding a new type of beetle in the Amazon.
Interesting stuff! What is it about the scientific method that is so powerful? And do you think science exerts its power the way you suggested religion did?
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