Live Without Science? The Vast Improvements in

¶ … Live Without Science? The vast improvements in the quality of life modern humankind has been experiencing are due in large part to the developments and innovations in science. These are not only confined to one or two branches of science but all branches thereof have made significant contributions. Whether it is in the biological, physical, technological, medical or other science, each branch has provided breakthroughs that resulted in having a better life for each of us.

For instance, "new technological advances lead to new scientific discoveries [such as] developing DNA copying and sequencing technologies [that] led to important breakthroughs (University of California Museum of Paleontology et al., 2011). Diseases that used to be dreaded in the past and caused several deaths are now curable because of our knowledge in DNA technology. On the personal level, science has tremendously improved how I live my everyday life.

Technology for that matter enabled me to have the latest innovations in information and communications that helped me in both my academic and work endeavors. Instead of going to the library for research, I can access whatever materials or references needed online and learn while at the comfort of my home or wherever I choose to do my studying.

As a person who is very much concerned with health and fitness, science has provided the knowledge on the proper nutrition to take and the kind of exercises to do to keep me in top physical shape. People are now living longer as we understand more about aging and the nutrients need to keep the body healthy and active long into our sunset years (Jessa, 2011).

Thus, I know that I will be one of those (absent any unforeseen or life threatening disease that may come my way) that can see living to my old age because science have made it possible. This living longer does not mean I will be unhealthy and senile but active still because science is providing the ways and means of being able to do so.

In stating that the quality of life of humankind or even my quality of life vastly improves with science, one of the meanings of this is how developments in science have made information and knowledge readily available to us. The acquisition thereof has truly brought us out of the Dark Ages where some critical information and knowledge are confined to scientists, scholars and those that have power and influence.

Science today ensured that anyone can have access to vast arrays of information and knowledge that can provide understanding of whatever concerns us. Scientific knowledge is supposed to permeate all of society's realms and, in the ideal case, also to inform everyday life and personal conversations (Wagner, 2007, p. 7)." Consequently, this is evident now especially with the availability of scientific knowledge via one of science's most important developments -- the Internet. Through this medium of information acquisition, people can simply "surf the Net" and find the answers needed.

I myself have done this on several occasions and by far have gotten the information and knowledge needed. The downside to this though is that there are scientific falsehoods and fallacies that may be mistaken as truths. I have experienced firsthand this situation and had I not been critical or knowledgeable enough, I might have construed what I saw as truth.

Thus, this ubiquity of knowledge and information provided by an important scientific innovation will have to be scrutinized by anyone accessing to determine what is true or not otherwise, false claims or knowledge will be accepted without diligent scrutiny. Another "negative impact" that science has on me, and I am sure others too, is the fact that several developments happen.