{"id":41,"date":"2019-06-29T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2020-09-09T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:47:38","slug":"chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2: The Origins of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Science has deep roots<\/strong> in the human drive to understand and manipulate the world we live in. This chapter looks at the origins of science in the ancient world and its relation to a variety of other ways in which we have sought to make sense of things. Our capacity and drive to understand ourselves and our world finds expression in the spontaneous &#8220;magical thinking&#8221; that characterizes both young minds and young civilizations. Science and superstition are both rooted in our story-telling minds and here we begin our explorations of the common features and divergences between the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<ul class=\"page-list subpages-page-list \">\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-52 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-1\/\">&#128194;  2.1 Ancient Greek Naturalism<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-4545\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-1\/ancient-greek-naturalism\/\">\ud83d\udcfa Ancient Greek Naturalism<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-971\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-1\/slideshow-origins-of-science\/\">&#128200; Slideshow: On the Origins of Science<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-4808\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-1\/history-of-ideas-ancient-greece\/\">\ud83d\udcfa History of Ideas: Ancient Greece<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-430 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/\">&#128194;  2.2 Magical Thinking<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-55\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/psychology-magical-thinking\/\">&#128203; The Psychology of Magical Thinking<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-873\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/why-magical-thinking-works\/\">&#128203; Why &#8220;Magical Thinking&#8221; Works for Some People<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-875\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/essentialism\/\">&#128203; Essentialism in Everyday Thought<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-1058\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/slideshow-magical-thinking\/\">&#128200; Slideshow: Magical Thinking<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-6368\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/poll-do-you-believe-in-magic\/\">&#128202; Poll: Do you believe in magic?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-218 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-3\/\">&#128194;  2.3 Arguments and Reasoning<\/a>\n<ul class='children'>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-529\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-3\/a-little-logic\/\">&#128203; A Little Bit of Logic<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-3420\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-3\/crash-course-how-to-argue\/\">&#128250; Crash course: How to argue<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-539\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-3\/slideshow-logic-argument-and-evidence\/\">&#128200; Slideshow: logic, argument and evidence<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-4813\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-3\/reliable-sources-tell\/\">&#128200; Reliable Sources Tell<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-4827\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-3\/a-starting-point\/\">&#128225; A Starting Point<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li class=\"page_item page-item-5154\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-3\/the-science-of-influencing-people\/\">&#128203; The Science of Influencing People<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-72\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-4\/\">&#128194;  2. 4 Case Study: ESP<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science has deep roots in the human drive to understand and manipulate the world we live in. 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