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has science always existed on earth?

what are some of the reasons for it being a part of our earth's fate??

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  • 1 decade ago
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    HERMES GAVE YOU SCIENCE MORTALS !

    AND THROUGH IT YOU WORK MUCH MISCHIEF ON EARTH.

    SACRIFICE UNTO THE GOD'S.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You need to define exactly what you mean by "science". Science was once called natural history and astrology. Astronomy didn't start separating from astrology until the 1700's for Greco-Roman civilizations.

    Yes, speaking very broadly, science has always existed on Earth and in the universe.

    Source(s): B.A. with honors in history (of science)
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Modern, experimental, science where our understanding of the world around us is based on evidence that can be reproduced and understood by many, was initially developed by Galileo Galilei in the early 1600's.

    Before that time the Catholic Church was the sole arbiter of how the world around us works. And that was based on tenuous interpretations of assorted writings known as Holy Scriptures.

    For example; the Catholic Church maintained that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and the Sun revolved around the Earth. This was based on only one paragraph from the Book of Joshua. And yet this was the only allowed explanation for what was seen in the heavens.

    Galileo examined the phases of Venus (using his improved telescope) and the motion of the main Jovian moons (the moons of Jupiter that he was the first to see) and understood that the Earth actually revolved around the Sun, as Nikolas Copernicus had suggested years earlier. Galileo was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition, placed under house arrest for the rest of his life, and prevented from writing, teaching, or even discussing his heliocentric views.

    The struggle by men of intelligence over men of simple superstition to explain the world by means of evidence, repeatable experiments, and sound thinking is what led to what we call "science".

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    science is a body of knowledge. But the things about the natural world that we have only recently discovered have been round for as long as Earth is and even beyond

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  • 1 decade ago

    That's an interesting question. If humanity had not evolved as we did, then perhaps we would never have thought about science. Yet, the qualities of science, gravity etc. would still have existed.

  • 1 decade ago

    Science is not "part of our earth's fate". It is our methodology for explaining natural phenomena. The trick is to ensure that it isn't influenced by either politics or religion.

  • 1 decade ago

    No Science is merely the discovery of laws of Nature and Physics to humans. Whereas said laws have always existed, humanity's awareness of them had not

  • 1 decade ago

    the materials to make science exist in our mind has always been here,., or seems like they are supposed to have always been here becuase of our use and need for the earth and becuase it is all of our first!

  • 1 decade ago

    Science is the best thing we have to reach to truth

    It is a human construct

  • 1 decade ago

    science has been around since man kind started to think

  • 1 decade ago

    Let me put it this way: if science never existed, we wouldn't be here.

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