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The document discusses the role of the church in scientific activities, advocating for participation rather than intervention, emphasizing the historical support of the church for science. It also explores the influence of Darwin's evolutionary theory on agriculture and political science, highlighting its applications in modern practices and its indirect effects on global politics. Additionally, it addresses controversies surrounding Freud's ideas in medicine, particularly the Oedipus Complex and the establishment of scientific psychology.

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The document discusses the role of the church in scientific activities, advocating for participation rather than intervention, emphasizing the historical support of the church for science. It also explores the influence of Darwin's evolutionary theory on agriculture and political science, highlighting its applications in modern practices and its indirect effects on global politics. Additionally, it addresses controversies surrounding Freud's ideas in medicine, particularly the Oedipus Complex and the establishment of scientific psychology.

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Do you think the church should intervene in scientific activities?

I think the church should not intervene but participate instead in scientific activities as science
has the power to discover more about the world and about God, but science should also hold
back and stop making something that could destroy more of our world like the invention of
weapons with mass destruction and chemicals. The Catholic Church has always been on the
side of Science.The church has started and funded several universities throughout Europe
where natural Philosophy (aka science) was studied. It was always keenly interested in science
and whenever scientific consensus on major points shifted it found a way to embrace those
changes. Science made our world more progressive and without the use of science we can’t
build the churches, buildings, medical care, schools, transportations that made our lives easier
than before. The church has always been involved with science even before and the church can
keep science more humane and ethical while science keeps religion grounded on objective
truth.

How can Darwin’s evolutionary theory influence the following fields in modern times?

Agriculture

Agriculture is just a subset of biology with a business attached, so evolution affects it at the most
basic level. In order to cultivate plants, it helps to know what makes them suited to their
environment and what factors could make them more or less productive if you begin to modify
them through selective propagation. Early humans began doing this without any concept of
evolution, but our modern understanding of the mechanisms behind changes in organisms has
enabled much more deliberate and targeted modifications.
In the present day, the modern theory of evolution, which relies much more on genetic evidence,
is used to tailor chemicals to protect animals from drug resistant (ie evolved) bugs etc. And in
the last few decades we have been able to modify the genetic code of plants and animals
directly.

Political Science

Directly, there’s little influence. Indirectly (se Economy and Religion) the effect is huge. Global
economy, and hence global politics, involves those trade deals mentioned.

The knowledge base of those sciences and the economical advantages they gain is in conflict
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 don't have as many
fundamentalists in power.

Political science could use the evolution theory to rule or even to destroy the weaker units but
also for better understanding of human happiness and to avoid conflicts
What are the controversies or questions in Freud’s idea in the following fields:

Medicine

The controversies or questions on Freud’s idea in medicine are first; the Oedipus Complex
where it is a psychoanalytic theory, a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the
opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and some
analysts think of it as dogmas and opposing ideas as heresies and the second one is the
clinical, psychological study of the mind where he hopes o establish a scientific psychology, one
that dealt with mental phenomena - with thoughts, feelings, wishes, fears, passions.

Mass Media

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