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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
I don't believe science is human created. Science is a part of being human.
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If we wipe ourselves out and over the next few millions of years environmental pressures select another species for intelligence like our African ape ancestors were, those distant descendants of rats or cockroaches or axolotls will develop the scientific method and they will work out the mass of the electron and the speed of light and spectral signatures of stars and the germ theory of disease and evolution by natural selection. Maybe they'll have their own 100% true magic books and go through the intellectual growing pains of leaving those books behind in the search for truth about the universe. But it won't require the presence of homo sapiens at all.