Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Habib. This episode, like all episodes of the show,

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supporting the show today at patreon.com forward slash Connor Abe abeb. Thank you. Friends, this is the first

episode in a series of episodes on science and how science interacts and intersects with our lives

in surprising ways. Across these episodes, we'll be considering the healing and connective powers of the

void of space, terrifying

encounters with predators, the development of the concept of nature, reflections on

our own animalistic violence, the truth and complications of the scientific method itself,

and the ways in which we can act at the tiniest layers of existence. Just as the connections are surprising, so I hope will be the picture of science that emerges.

I don't mean science in the dull and deadened way science is spoken about mostly today.

Right now, science primarily finds its way into our consciousness through struggles. There are struggles about

pharmaceuticals or AI or climate change. Science finds itself located in tensions and the low

hums of everyday anxiety. These tensions and battles leave all sorts of new holes and questions

and create plenty of rubble

and ruins to sort through as well.

They're not neat and easy conflicts wherein one side wins out against the other.

This has been the case since I've been alive.

I'm thinking of when I was younger and evolution was challenged by creationism.

And so scientists took a strong and necessary stance

against the flimsy perspective of creationists,

especially the fundamentalists,

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