EAN: 9783031009532

SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND T...

History and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began to settle in localized groups
they codified their lives and experiences  and formed a collective for mutual support. This
proto-civilization would have arisen from each individual's questions about the world  and
their attempt to understand themselves and their place in the world. These groups  or tribes 
evolved rules of conduct to facilitate communal living  and made a calendar for the group's
celebration of harvests  and other events upon which the group was utterly dependent. This
process of social evolution is the origin of religion  and of a magical way of looking at
Nature. Eventually  this developing worldview was also the origin of science  which is our
investigation of Nature to understand something of what is happening around us  and to use this
knowledge to ensure our survival in a violent  indifferent Universe. After all  science and
religion seek to answer the same question: Why and how isthe natural world the way it is? This
book seeks to show how science evolved from religion and magic  in response to a need to
understand Nature.

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