• Question: Would anything exist if it wasn't for science?

    Asked by jewlz to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Science is a man-made way of thinking about things. There was stuff before man, so yes, things can exist without science.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      I disagree with Tom. Everything that exists is science. So science and existence are inherently linked, and you can’t have one without the other in my opinion!

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Science is the tool that man uses to understand things. It’s a method where you come up with an idea about why something ‘is’, work out some experiment that you can perform to test your idea, then do the experiment to see if you’re right. If you’re not, you go back to the start and try another idea.
      So lots of stuff would exist without science, but we wouldn’t understand much about how it works.

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