Although scientists can dream of things like nanotechnology, cures for disease,both science and technology still have their limitations, and often cause serious problems. I am creating this thread to debate science. NOT RELIGION .

Hundreds and thousands die each year worldwide in automobile accidents. Although scientists and medical professionals have invented medications for many ailments, they often have serious side effects.

Have you ever seen those adds on TV, is whatever-exanol right for you? I once saw an advertisement for heart-attack medication. After talking about what an amazing breakthrough their product was, this voice suddenly chimed in and very quickly said

“Warning our product could have very serious side effects, they include headache, abdominal pain, and increased risk of heart attack.”

Yeah, heart attack medication which increases the risk of heart attacks. That product sounds like a failure to me.

Additionally, the pursuit of science and technology has tampered with the environment of our planet, its ecological balance. The pollution created by modern scientific inventions has had its effects. Terms such as “acid rain,” “Global Warming,” “greenhouse effect,” and “deforestation” reflect the failure of science to safeguard the future of our planet. We experience the effects of these things. The weather all over the world, the climate of our planet has been changing.

This is not hard to prove...so im not going to try

The negative side-effects of mankind’s activity will be felt well into the future. It is a real possibility that mankind will ruin the earth.

We have discussed the effects of pollution on our planet, what about on man’s health?

“Each generation is getting weaker as pollution builds up and wears down the immune system,” claims allergy specialist Dr. Jean Monro of Britain’s Breakspear Hospital for Allergy and Environmental Medicine. Environmental pollution, failure to breast-feed babies, the addition of chemicals to food and water supplies, and an unwise use of medicines and drugs are cited as contributing factors. Diseases ranging from asthma to cancer, and even child behavioral problems, result. As reported in The Times of London, an estimated 17 million people, some 30 percent of Britain’s population, could be suffering from environmentally induced ailments, many without realizing it.

These facts prove that pollution, the result of science, has negative effects on our health. Although medical science has improved in many areas, for every solution, there seems to be a new problem. The book environmental ethics states: “Technology is a servant of only limited usefulness, and highly unreliable. When it does solve a problem, it often creates two new ones- and their side effects are usually hard to foresee.”

Perhaps the biggest danger that comes from science comes from their primary research field. The world’s biggest industry is the production of weapons of war. It employs some 50 million people worldwide, directly or indirectly. Additionally, one quarter, or some 500,000, of the world’s scientists are engaged in military research, according to a 1989 study. Since that time period, those numbers have no doubt increased, because global conflict and war have both increased.

Is our search for answers going to lead to our demise? what do you think?