Originally Posted by cougarkitty

Our science and our maths is defiantly flawed!

When I was at school Earth had 1 moon and Pluto was a planet. Now I've learnt that earth actually has 5 moons and Pluto is no longer classed as a planet because its just a ball of ice with no land mass.

I've also fallen into countless arguments with my maths and science teachers because we would be working through an equation and they'd say to divide everything by 3 and I'd ask where that 3 came from when it wasn't in the original equation. They'd say "just because it is, you just divide it by 3" I could never understand that some guy was sat in a room and just decided that this was how you worked out pie and he just choose that number and it happened to work.

Also some of our technology is also flawed. They build a plane. They can fly and plane. But the they can't explain why it fly! What kind of logic is that?!

Originally Posted by cougarkitty

Our science and our maths is defiantly flawed!

When I was at school Earth had 1 moon and Pluto was a planet. Now I've learnt that earth actually has 5 moons and Pluto is no longer classed as a planet because its just a ball of ice with no land mass.

I've also fallen into countless arguments with my maths and science teachers because we would be working through an equation and they'd say to divide everything by 3 and I'd ask where that 3 came from when it wasn't in the original equation. They'd say "just because it is, you just divide it by 3" I could never understand that some guy was sat in a room and just decided that this was how you worked out pie and he just choose that number and it happened to work.

Also some of our technology is also flawed. They build a plane. They can fly and plane. But the they can't explain why it fly! What kind of logic is that?!

Originally Posted by Durandal4

I recently thought of this concept:

Mankind is without a doubt, imperfect and obviously flawed. In the beginning (in evolutionary terms), we were nothing but singled cells with no other function but to survive and reproduce to spread our DNA. Afterward, we became multi-celled organisms with the same basic concept yet more powerful defenses against the world. Due to the diversity of our DNA, we became less susceptible to the diseases and "weapons" of our enemy cells and bacteria.

Eventually we became a human being. Once we became "human", we created language, mathematics, science, theories, and overall concepts of the world. I say "created" because before mankind, the world knew nothing of these things. Before us, never were there any organisms thinking "Hmm....I wonder what 15/7 is equal to."

Now humans are naturally flawed, and thus destined to fail, unless we can continue our cycle of adapting and evolving. Anyways, when working with any mathematical or scientific concept, there is always the chance of human error. Because we, as humans, are erroneous, does that mean our concepts are null? Does math really exist or did we create it. If so, doesn't that mean that math is flawed as well? Because math is our foundation of science (chemisty, physics, etc.) doesn't that mean our science is flawed as well? If our science is flawed than our application of science is as well. This includes all technology, both modern and old.

In the end, we are all basically trying to continue our original plan. Survive and evolve. Dominate other life forms and become the strongest. If we are using flawed concepts to achieve superiority, doesn't that mean we will eventually fail? I don't mean we will be overran by the fish or conquered by a new species of gopher, but we're susceptible to our own demise. Because we rely on such erroneous materials, won't we eventually lose this fight unless we evolve into more intellectual, rational beings?