Why Is Science SO Important?

Science has been vastly underrated. It is what separates us from the primitive, ignorant people we were centuries ago - people that thought weather was controlled by multiple gods and who simply relied on ineffective prayer to cure the diseased. It's a huge part of common sense as well. As children, humans learn to cope with gravity - whether the learning experience comes from a nasty fall or a game of catch. An entire other …

…natural phenomena and potentially dangerous animals. On the other hand, cyanobacteria, over millions of years, created a human-friendly atmosphere of oxygen that allowed us to evolve. Science has taught us how to preserve these animals and their habitats. With its help we realized that the world is not only ours, and that we cannot control it with crazy rituals or prayer. Still, technically, nothing is impossible, and the study of science is far from completeness.