Which is older Science or Technology? Why?
The development of things over our species’ evolution can be observed in parallel to similar developments among young children. Does a child develop a simple tool before trying to understand why it works? Yes. But he/she reasoned how it works, because he/she saw similar things naturally perform similar tasks effectively. Primitive man observes a bird with a thin, long beak darting it into a hole in a tree to get nourishment. Lacking such an physical attribute (after perhaps trying to jab his fingers or his nose in there), he tries a thin stick to do the same. He has developed a tool. Why did he do that? He figured out fat fingers don’t go into narrow holes. Is that science? I think so. It isn’t high-level science, but it is reasoning that does qualify as rudimentary science. There is no way man could have stumbled upon the simplest of technology, our first tools, without attendant precedent reasoning from natural observations. Science necessarily predates technology…..but not by much
