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Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge, in The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control (Farrarr, Straus and Giroux, 2000), p. 9] Beyond technology, and in harness with is science. People conflate the two: Most of what is reported on television by 'science' correspondents is in fact technology. Technology is about changing things, providing machines and medicine, altering our surroundings to make our lives more comfortable and to create wealth Science is about understanding, how the universe works and all the creatures in it. The two pursuit are different, and not necessarily linked. Technology is as old as human kind: Stone tools are technology. People may produce fine instruments and weapons, cathedrals, windmills, and aqueducts, without having any formal knowledge of the underlying science - metallurgy, mechanics, aerodynamics, and hydrodynamics. In contrast, science at its purest is nothing more nor less than 'natural philosophy, as it was originally known, and needs produce no technologies at all.
a. This is not an argument.
b. This is an explanation.
c. The conclusion is 'People conflate the two: Most of what is reported on television by 'science' correspondents is in fact technology.
d. The conclusion is 'Technology is about changing things, providing machines and medicine, altering our surroundings to make our lives more comfortable and to create wealth.'
e. The premise is: 'Science is about understanding, how the universe works and all the creatures in it.'
f. This argument engages in fallacy of equivocation