Activity 1-3: ACE YOUR TASK

Answer the following questions briefly but concisely.

1. Considering the current state of our society, do you think science literacy among people
has contributed to the growth of our economy?
2. How can science influence government policies?
3. What is the contribution of Copernicus in the philosophy of science?
4. Do you think the Church should intervene in scientific activities?
5. What is Darwin’s contribution to modern science?
6. How can Darwin’s evolutionary theory influence the following fields in modern times?
• Economy
• Political science
• Religion
7. How can you describe Freudian ideas as a scientist?
8. If Freud is still alive, what do you think are the major changes he would make to this
theory?

Answer:

1. Yes, it contributed to the growth of economy. Scientific literacy is the engine for
technological progress you see around, and it is highly adaptable. Science literacy makes
people curious and wide minded, therefore it gives people the ability to not accept the world
as it is but look for situations how to make it a better place, like medicines, scientific research,
safer and more efficient transportation, etc. Science literacy also makes people smarter.

2. Science influence government policies by providing information, for example, science talks
about climate change and how this is affecting the people, animals, and earth, government
take actions and create policies that people will follow for it not to get worse.

3. Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was
stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolve around it.

4. To my mind, church should not intervene in scientific activities since they have different
point of view when it comes to purpose and processing things. I believe that the church must
espouse science and try to understand it but not to interfere with it. They bot have different
explanation on how living things was created. But amidst with all the differences, the world is
too perfect for us to not believe that there is a God who created it.
5. Charles Darwin contributed the theory of evolutionary. According to him, various species
came from single species through adaptations to environment. As time passes by, there is a
result of changes in physical and behavioral traits.

6. Economy: The effects of the understanding of evolution have not only resulted in
agricultural giants in economy, but also medical giants. Both are major influences in local and
global economy. Trade deals are done around protection of medical intellectual properties
and agricultural produce.

Political science: Directly, there’s little influence. Indirectly the effect is huge. Global economy,
and hence global politics, involves those trade deals mentioned.

The knowledge base of those sciences and the economic advantages they gain conflicts with
some of the religious base voters in those areas, which in turn has contributed to an ongoing
shift in global and economical power to regions that doesn’t have as many fundamentalists in
power.

Religion: Darwin’s theory of evolution prompted a renewal of theological reflection on the

manner of god’s creativity.

7. Freud as a scientist is genius, he contributed in the scientific world through his method of
psychoanalysis, and most of us can say that his method is really factual and had a great impact
on the scientific way of understanding human nature.

8. If Freud is still alive, I think he will not change anything in his theories, it’s not because it is
already perfect, it is because his psychoanalytic is already enough to study human’s inner life.