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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown)
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Applied science will continue for a long time to come. Scientists will keep developing versatile new materials; faster and more sophisticated computers; genetic techniques that make us healthier, stronger, longer-lived; perhaps even fusion reactors that provide cheap energy with few environmental side effects. The question is, will these advances in applied science bring any surprises, any revolutionary shifts in our basic knowledge? Learning that we humans were created, not de novo by God, but gradually, by the process of natural was a big surprise. Most other aspects of human evolution - those concerning where, when and how, precisely, Homo sapiens evolved - are details. These details may be interesting, but they are not to be surprising unless they show that scientists' basic assumptions about evolution are wrong. We may learn, say, that our sudden surge in intelligence was catalysed by the intervention of alien beings, as in the movie ‘200/’.That would be a very big surprise. In fact, any proof that life exists or even once existed beyond our little planet would a huge surprise. Science, and all human thought, would be reborn.
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