One of the few things that set humanity apart from other animals is its undying thirst for

knowledge. In fact, it grows so fond of its grand quest for knowledge that it has even coined a name for it. Science. However, the road towards the total understanding and exploitation of our world has apparently gone too far and too fast. In its haste to create a better world, mankind has inadvertently set a course to destroy it. In its obsession to gain knowledge, Man has neglected the importance of wisdom to reign it. Truly, as Martin Luther King Junior once said, Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Despite the much sugar-coating and decoration by pioneers in history, the threat of science to humanity is very real. Science is the womb of Technology. Human nature forbids the acquiring of knowledge without the implementation of it. A revolutionary discovery or the formulation of a groundbreaking and proven theory is usually the prequel to an influx in invention. While the vast majority of the variations of science are harmless if not very useful, one form, if left poorly or not restricted, will positively bring about the doomsday of humanity. It is the science of war. On the definition of science there is evidently dispute against my statement. My aforementioned cases and arguments might be accused to be irrelevant to the topic, as I have covered military technology, and not much about science. But to speak of technology is to speak of science. Based on recorded history, it can be accurately assumed that there has been no widely agreed-upon scientific discovery that has not been exploited into technological advancements. And the truth is, if there is a way, no matter how twisted or perverted, to apply that science into the military, most governments today will take it. Therefore, science, though not dangerous by itself, feeds what might cause the destruction of humankind. This is what makes it a threat to humanity. Perhaps a century later someone might wake up from the overgrown ruins and ask about his dream, of a faraway world from once upon a time. Perhaps a tattered child may one day hold his mothers hand and ask, What is science?, and his mother would gestur e to beyond the rickety, unmaintained cordon, a patch of land where to drink the water will be to drink uranium, and say, This was. In a nearby world called the present, science is already a solid and obvious threat, a blade that loiters near the throat of humankind. It may be one form of science out of a hundred. It may as well constitute one percent of all the science humanity has done in its brief existence. However, when the dam of regulations and civility breaks loose, the destruction the science of war does, is a hundred percent.