should science be banned?

Okay. But don't stop there, take it a bit further.

Banning science means:

- we stop research in treating or preventing cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

- we stop the development of drugs to ease pain or cure disease.

- we eliminate cellphones and computers and hybrid cars and the internet since continued development of these are science

- we allow people to starve when engineering (a science) isn't allowed to develop water delivery systems to irrigate farms

Banning something because there are negative as well as positive consequences is ridiculous.

As far back as primitive humans, who did live in a "pack" society, learned that fire burns, but it also cooks food and provides light. Both good and bad.

Summer and winter, night and day - there is good and bad in the entire world.

Science, the biggest irony.

Sadly, there is no way back. I have thought about how much happier would I be as a dog. No worries, no bad or good, no critical decisions,etc.

As evolution takes its toll, so does the human race, in a wrong path. If I could, I would destroy it all.

Long ago, I thought that only a loser would accept the word as it is, but now, it's the other way around, you are a fool if you don't move on.

Just because there are abuses that exist with scientific facts and technological developments, such as the development of atomic bombs or patrol drones doesn't mean that science is "evil" and should be banned.

Prior to science, look at the ignorance that much of the world lived in. In order to remedy sickness and illnesses, doctors used leeches and bled their patients, the world was flat, the sun was believed to revolve around the Earth, people believed (really believed) in, vampires, werewolves, fairies and other assorted creatures that do not exist...and religion was in charge. Anyone who has done any reading about the 15th century or before, knows how ignorant the Western world was and how steeped it was in feudalism and slavery (slavery of the mind as well as the body).

Before science and technology, people were routinely burned at the stake as witches. Religion (the Catholic Church) carried out inquisitions where they murdered untold numbers of Jews and Gypsies and anyone they considered a heretic.

Science may be responsible for a lot of bad things, but so is religion.

I think what you are suggesting is that we should go backwards as a civilization to feudalism and religious ignorance and superstition. While this is a knee-jerk reaction to what you think is wrong with our world today, it isn't the answer to our world problems. Going back to ignorance and superstition is not the answer to global warming, over-population, unemployment and all the other problems we face today. Just running and hiding and sticking your head in the sand isn't the answer or solution to any of the problems our world faces today.

I wish to say that religion has a place in our world, an important one - but it isn't the answer to our world problems.

Science is like a car, and people of religion/ideology is like the driver, and Christianity is like the good driver because Christians use it to build world peace (Luke 2:14).

Science is like an aeroplane, and in the hand of terrorists it becomes a tool of destruction.

For it is the people, Christians, who gave the world modern science and modern democracy. Look at these names:

Christian pastor Harvard University.

Christian monk Mendel the Father of Genetics.

Christian Newton, Pasteur, Lister, etc.

The Red Cross whence the Red Crescent ensued.

Habitat For Humanity.

Peace Corps was established by a Christian President and a majority Christian Congress.

Mother Teresa's

St. Jude Hospital

etc

How on earth could asteroid mining go wrong in a way that would cause them to go towards earth? You'd have to specifically aim the asteroid at the earth, which is traveling at thousands of miles per hour around the sun. Unless the asteroid was in earths orbit that one makes no sense

Wow, long question. All true science agrees with the bible. Only false science like evolution should be regulated. Don't ban it, as we need to study why so many people were fooled for so long.

I agree with one thing in this rant. Some dogs are superior to some people.

But I think you know almost nothing about science or what we have learned about the universe through the skeptical methods of science.

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Regards,

John Popelish

Dude, chill out. The human race is screwed either way, just enjoy the ride.

Where do you think the computer you typed your question came from? Did the pope crap it out?

The next time you have a potentially deadly disease for which researchers have found a cure, please ignore the treatment that dirty horrible science provided and let it run its natural course.. And please catch this disease before you reproduce, if at all possible.

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