Need help for a school project

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I have a debate at school where each team represent a specific subject that affect nearly every society (science, education, health, security, etc...) I decided to go solo for this one and defend science. We need to prove that our particular cause is worthy of being given extra attention and funding by politicians.

I think sicence is honestly the most important, but I wanted to hear your opinion as to why. My explanation is that science is what bring enlightment and separate us from primitive cavemen or animals. It brings better understanding of our universe, allowing us to better survive in it or improve it. Science saves people by inventing medecine. It is the driving force behind education and more importantly, it rests on solid proof that get demonstrated. Science wins because it work.

I also need to privde statistics and citations, but that's another story and I don't need help.

Thank you.

In case you get some Luddites coming at you, I suggest you remember the following point. Although science has brought us problems, it has also brought us awareness of the problems, and in almost all cases the solutions. For example, although our technological society is in the process of radically altering the climate, science has made us aware of that fact, and proposed solutions (alternative energy and, more questionably, geoengineering). Meanwhile, man kind is healthier and better for science. In those cases where science has not proposed a direct solution, it is human nature and society which is the problem, not science (ex: we could choose to just not build any nuclear weapons). That is not to say that we should research harmful technologies, but I don't think science itself can be blamed.