Science & Technology
Catherine Shin
Science never provides solutionsit only poses more questions. Is
this a fair comment?
• Key words:
– Science: systematic practice which organizes
knowledge in the form of explanations and
predictions
• A big contributor to technological
progress
– Never
– Solutions
– Fair?
• Address the question
and social
Science never provides solutionsit only poses more questions. Is
this a fair comment?
• Thesis 1:
– Science is about exploring the unknown,
discovering and innovating.
– Probing will only lead to the
fatalistic
discovery that there are many
more
undiscovered
and unknown e.g.
black hole
– Unlike religion which provides solutions when
questions are asked.
– New breakthroughs such as the stem cell research
creates an ethical minefield  potential to cure
cancer
but brings up questions on the ethics
of deriving the cells from
an embryo
Science never provides solutionsit only poses more questions. Is
this a fair comment?
• Thesis 2:
– Science has created more problems instead
of solving them.
• Atomic bomb Einstein created
the atomic
bomb so as to bring about world peace. It
ended up being the cause of destruction and
chaos, inducing people to think of its
repercussions and harm it causes.
Science never provides solutionsit only poses more questions. Is
this a fair comment?
• Anti-thesis 1:
– Science brings about certainty. Research
brings about answers to certain problems
such as global warming how carbon
dioxide emission can be reduced and the
discovery of alternative renewable energy
sources
Science never provides solutionsit only poses more questions. Is
this a fair comment?
• Conclusion:
• If science were to provide a definite answer,
science would not exist as
its function
is to develop, justify, and
add on to
pre-existing knowledge.
• In a way, posing more questions is good as
they may lead to the solution. However, this
may lead to a problem should the scientists
cross the line out of
vanity or curiosity.