Critical Thinking Blog#1

My stand in C.P. Snow’s argument on the division between “the two cultures” of science and humanities is indecisive. Snow stated that “there was almost an unbridgeable divide between ‘the two cultures’ of humanities and the sciences” but I think otherwise. I feel as though in one way I’m a science person but in some cases, I’m a humanities person. One of the reasons why I side with the science part of this argument is because in my studies, learning about biology, the anatomy of the human body, just learning about our ancestors and where we come from, it has taught me that all things are discovered to have a cause and effect approach. Everything is co-related to each other and that science is science. You can’t argue with what you see in front of you. As Charles Darwin points out in the coursepack, pp116-117, everything is related and is connected in groups. From organisms to plants to animals and then finally later on his life found that homo-sapiens (human beings), have developed from ape like animals (Coursepack, p134). In the humanities side of this argument, research shows that the belief of humanism is based on God and the Christian way of life. I believe that in order to side with the humanistic way of things, your basic belief in life such come from what God has created. How God created the world, body of water, animals, Adam and Eve (human beings), and so much more but everything separately in His own image. Being a Christian and having been raised in my Christian household all my life, my belief points me to the humanities direction because the core theory of humanism is the Godly perceptive. However, attending classes that teach us otherwise, having books based on science and science alone, that discredits the humanistic approach of things, it makes me wonder; can science and humanism really co-exist without clashing with each other?