Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Science: Unexpectedness

Here are a couple of articles that illustrate why science, as a way of understanding the world, is so interesting, and so useful. It actually discovers things that we (culture-bound creatures that we are) would never think of. Both are from the NY Times (registration required; use BugMeNot if you don't have a login):

Insert obligatory slam on "Intelligent [sic] Design" here....

6 comments:

stlbanjo said...

Isn't science part of our culture?

It is a good thing God created us and science so we could discover the other things He created for us to discover That was pretty smart of Him, don't you think?

Dan

rantingnerd said...

FINE, nitpick my ill-chosen words. Phttththtthbddle. :-)

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