As humanities students, and as humans, we have the responsibility to understand not only the workings of science, but how and why. This is because we need to constantly question what we know, the same as Darwin did. This is the only way we can prove ideas to be right, disprove ideas that are wrong, and discover new ideas. We need to question why, because that could lead us to our next, perhaps totally different discovery. The same way Columbus simply stumbled upon America in search of another country, we too have potential to stumble upon a miraculous discovery, just by questioning why and how things work the way they do in science.
Scientific inquiry and knowledge should play a very large part in our society. It should be rooted in everything we do. The way our medical care operates, the way our scientists discover new things (whether it be animal science or cancer research) and the way our government operates. This is because when science is tested to a certain degree, it can be proven to be factual, and when this happens, we can use those facts to our advantage,
As stated before, science should be completely rooted in the way our society works. Science can influence our decisions by helping us to understand ourselves better, and maybe help us to use rational thought, instead of myth and theory, like how the world used to operate 2 centuries ago. It can influence our laws by showing medical and evolutionary facts, which would allow us to develop better health care systems, as well as any other aspect of our lives and world that are affected by science. And, it can influence our culture by allowing us to be more educated and less ignorant to the world around us. When we have a greater understanding about how the world, our species, and we ourselves work, we become better for it.
Happy birthday Charles Darwin.
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