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Scientific Knowledge - Uses - Limitations.
Scientific knowledge can used to develop technology.
The results of improved
technology
can be more useful to some people than to others.
For example, developing genetic changes to crops
to make them grow in hot dry conditions might be more useful
to people living nearer the equator than the poles.
Improved technology can be expensive
and some people
might not benefit because they do not have enough
money.
For example, radiotherapy
to
treat cancer
may only be available
in richer countries.
Scientific knowledge has limitations.
There are some questions which can
not be answered
because the evidence is incomplete or inconclusive.
This type of question can be answered by science in the
future
after doing further research.
There are some questions which can
never be answered by science.
Science can tell us how to do
things
but not whether it is good or right to do
things.
People look to philosophy, politics
or
religion to answer these
questions.
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