issue8 Gter四月''无名''小组第30次作业-zhupei

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41"Such no mainstream areas of inquiry as astrology, fortune-telling, and psychic and paranormal pursuits play a vital role in society by satisfying human needs that are not addressed by mainstream science."

1. 虽然非主流科学已经不像从前那么流行了但还是有重要社会地位的。
2. 要解释为什么非主流科学还有重要地位不难——主流科学是基于客观存在的事物之上的研究，不能没有根据地预测，而非主流科学却可以毫无顾忌地去预测，满足了人们的好奇心。
3. 非主流科学能满足人的精神和心理需求，而主流科学在这方面往往比较薄弱。
4. 非主流科学也在发展，比如占星学，它融合了地理学、气象学和天文学等各种主流科学的理论，又可以融合主流科学所不具备的人文因素，使之更符合人们的心理需要，在这方面主流科学也是比不上的。
5. 总结：除非主流科学已经发展到可以解释自然界的一切现象了，否则非主流科学不会消失。由于我们现在对自然界还仅仅处在很少认知的阶段，所以非主流科学仍占有一席之地。

It is no wonder that a scientific professor also plays a role of churchman or preacher, a modern lady who is an atheist to believe horoscope, or a man who opposes superstitious theory might also turn to a psychic when his wife died. Although in the contemporary world such no mainstream areas of inquiry as astrology, fortune-telling, psychic and paranormal pursuits has becoming not as popular as thousands of years before, they still play a vital role in society today by satisfying human needs that are not addressed by mainstream science.

How to explain why a scientific professor also plays a role of churchman or preacher, an atheist also believes horoscope, and a man without religion turns to psychic sometimes is not such difficult. Noticing that religion, fortune-telling, astrology, psychic and paranormal pursuits are all no mainstream areas of inquiry that could satisfy people’s spiritual or psychological needs, these phenomenon that appears to be inscrutable could be easily understood. Considering scientific research is fundamental based on essential objects or phenomenon and its characters are of strict, accurate, and precise, it is doomed to be insufficient in predicting the future without convincing proofs; however, no mainstream science can do what mainstream science cannot or is afraid to do. As the original purpose of mainstream science, no matter physics, biology, chemistry or even mathematics, is to explain the essential characters of existed objects or phenomenon or rather, rules of these things, it has to keep silent in some area, for instance, the unknown world. Comparatively, no mainstream areas can predict the future without any limit factors. For example, to Bermuda, a mystery region in the Atlantic, and an unknown area that science cannot explain exactly, scientists could not explain why hundreds of planes and ships disappeared in this region more than suggesting there is probably a base of saucerman. Meanwhile wizards might assert the root of this numinous power is the deity. Surly the wizards’ theory is more easily to be accepted by majorities because theology has existed for thousands of years, however, a saucerman has never appeared really. According to this circumstance, mainstream’s essence decide that it cannot be more sufficient than no mainstream inquiry in such areas as predicting or explaining the unknown world to satisfy people’s curiosity without any real evidence.

The other factor that limits mainstream science from being helpful is that it is not able to meet people’s particular psychological needs when they come across calamities. It is human nature to look for somewhere to rely on spiritually when suffered from a calamity. Nevertheless, science could only tell the reason of calamity but not able to be the places to be rely on. For example, a doctor could tell why persons die and also could try the best to save them but cannot cure the hurt in the death’s relatives heart, in contrast, a psychic could appease them by the way of pretending to meet and talk with the death and sending some soothing words to whom turned to them. That is why a man without religion might turn to psychic too. Even if the man knows that’s unbelievable he can get some comfort by doing this. Therefore these no mainstream inquiries could sometimes be useful in satisfying particular psychological needs of human beings. Similar examples take places in predicting the future. Many of us could not forget the “Century Prediction” during the late 1990s. Human beings need to set a figure that they could depend on when catastrophe occurs because of the scare due to ignorance of the unknown, as a result many people chose to believe in augurs who spread canards about earth ruining at the end of century and promised that the deity will protect those who trust in their theory, rather than in scientists who could only speak weakly to persuade people believe the coming century will be the same as contemporary century at the scientific position but are helpless in eliminate the scare. In a word, science cannot appease the spiritual helpless and panic while no mainstream inquiry can, from this facet no mainstream areas of inquiry are more helpful in satisfying some special needs of people.

On the other hand the no mainstream inquiry is developing along with the development of science and enhancing step by step so that it becomes easer to be accepted. Astrology, for example, absorbed the theory of many science subjects such as geography, aerography, and astronomy and mixed them together then developed some supernatural predicts about fortune or destiny in the future base on these science subjects. Different from scientific suggestions, these scientific-masked deceptive predicts could cater more efficient to people’s curiosity because they give people an exactly assertion, regardless true or false, while scientific suggestions cannot. Science requires fact but no mainstream inquiry doesn’t have to, so the following one can mix more humanities to meet psychological and spiritual needs of human beings, therefore science could not take the place of no mainstream inquiry in this facet.

To sum up, although lots of phenomenon has been explained by scientists, no mainstream areas of inquiry are still existed. Because nature is so spacious to human that it always has something we are not able to explain exactly, and we can only attempt to explain in the long lasting history. We have to admit we are still ignorant to the nature. No mainstream inquiry, in fact, is a kind of native eager of human to explain the unknown area. Despite that it has changed from mainstream to no mainstream nowadays, it won’t disappear until everything could be explained precisely in science. It still plays a vital role in current society by satisfying human needs that are not addressed by mainstream science. 字数：954

[ 本帖最后由 zhupei 于 2006-3-17 17:07 编辑 ]

expire7UID: 2160574

光看提纲,就觉得很厉害了.那么多东西我根本无法想象用英语表达。再看到字数。我无语了。晚上来拍。今天突发事件太多了。累死了。

yytmywhUID: 2188847

好文!
看了半天一个字也拍不出来

zhupeiUID: 2153040

唉~~~两个小时才写出来，上了考场不就挂了，算不得好文……

expire7UID: 2160574

很多例子很不错。我没有找到很需要拍得地方。所以就不发上来了。写的不错。控制时间吧。