The stated mission of modern science is to dominate and control nature.
It was born of the philosophies of Francis Bacon who suggested we could learn “to command nature in action”, and of René Descartes who wrote that mankind could become “the masters and possessors of nature.” This was science flipped on its head because the previous scientific philosophy saw nature as a perfect creation of god to be observed and understood.
Take for instance, water.
Without water, we would not exist.
And so the true value is in understanding the nature of water so that we can flow with it, not control it.
