Biology is the study of life while chemistry is the science of matter. These two broad sciences explain a high percentage of life as we know it. "When females of most mammalian species give birth, their bodies are flooded with oxytocin..." (Brownlee 295). This chemical that is produced in female mothers shows that their is chemistry involved with reproduction. Chemistry and biology cannot explain everything about love, life, and reproduction.
Love cannot be described through any scientifc way. It is something we cannot describe because it is so genuine to us. It is so rare, that most people who profess it, they are actually just in lust. If we believed that love was something scientific, it would change how we look and find love. We would expect our mate to just be destined to be with us. We would stop being competitive and our society would decline because of it. We would be more apathetic about seeing the opposite sex and may lose our attraction to the opposite sex.
Reproduction is obviously scientific. It is a natural process but can be described through science, with all the chemical reactions necessary for reproduction. As I stated earlier, oxytocin is one of the chemical reactions that happens. Oxytocin affects a woman's emotion and causing her to be more loving and caring. "...oxytocin acts as a natural tranquilizer, lowering a new mother's blood pressure, blunting her sensitivity to pain and stress, and perhaps helping her view her child more as a bundle of joy than as a burden" (Brownlee 296).
I believe it is a bad idea to think of everything as scientific. It could hamper the process of reproduction and hurt the future of our species. There may be chemicals that make us aroused, but they are all naturally developed in the body. Serotonin is a chemical that directly leads to happiness and is one of the chemicals that make us aroused. Arousal is the start to something bigger and more real. This can lead to love and there are no scientific methods to calcualte how someone falls in love.
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