Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us. Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realized.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Has science helped us to get a better understanding of our envirnoment? While some might argue that science has been perplexing to us, many others assert that scientific discoveries have minimized the vagueness of the world around us. My personal view aligns more closely with this latter view that science, with all of its limitations, has helped us to know more about our world, for the following reasons.
First, scientific discoveries have helped us to recognize the real cause of many phenomena. Take medical discoveries such as discovery of bacteria as an example. People were used to get seek, suffer and eventually die from many sicknesses while they could do nothing to prevent or cure their ailment. Now that we know about bacteria, we wash our hands with sanitiziers, we take antibiotics, and we live a longer life in average. Scientific discoveries have provided us with this chance to understand the causes of different problems we encounter as an species and this, in turn, has helped us to better manage our lives.
Further, science has revealed many of underlying mechanisms of the phenomena we used to assume "arbitrary". For instance, the discovery of sun's UV light and its deletorious effects on human body, inculding the eyes, has helped us to understand why almost all of old people suffer from poor vision. Now that we know sun's UV makes the transparent lense in the eye less clear over time, we have this option of using sunglasses to avoid this problem as we age. It is obvious that scientific discoveries has helped us to have a better knowledge of our environment and eventually, ourselves.
Last, it should be acknowledged that although science has helped us to learn about the causes and mechanisms of different phenomena around us, it has confounded us in some aspects as well. For example, astronomical discoveries have shown that our knowlwde about the universe had been too rudimentary before. The more we learn about space, the more we realize that the universe is too enormous to be understood. So, it is right, sometimes these discoveries do more in favor of making us less confident about our knowldege.
Ultimatelty, as the effects of science in our lives is so complex, many different aspects should be put into consideration before drawing a conclusion. While scientific discoveries have helped us to identify the causes and mechanisms of many events, they have been confusing for us in some regards as well. However, I believe that science has done more good than bad to elucidate this vague world for us.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, so, well, while, for example, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 33.0505617978 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2137.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 427.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00468384075 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92440502484 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 215.323595506 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47775175644 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 678.6 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2276815959 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.473684211 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4736842105 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73684210526 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.391256856572 0.243740707755 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138670884354 0.0831039109588 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0900094307411 0.0758088955206 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249072973668 0.150359130593 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0566327545971 0.0667264976115 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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