Relating to the time before the development of modern science or the application of scientific method.
（与）科学发展前（有关）的；（与）科学方法应用前（有关）的
pre-scientific doctors would peddle all-purpose remedies because they knew no better
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In times past, it seems understandable that pre-scientific societies would imagine mysterious forces or supernatural causes to be responsible for natural disasters.
I think it's still at the pre-scientific stage, and then there's a lot of speculation around it.
Milk has long been held in high esteem for its nutritious quality, which even in pre-scientific days was apparent from the fact that it provided complete nourishment for young animals and humans.
Those who believe we are members of different cultures and races live in a pre-scientific past dominated by the forces of racism unleashed by imperialism.
This was not unreasonable in a country whose still powerful intellectual traditions were essentially pre-scientific and divorced from both systematic observation and practical application.
In fact, every culture, no matter how primitive and pre-scientific, had a belief in some form of demonic possession.
The notion that ethical truths are ‘out there’ waiting to be discovered is itself the remnant of a pre-scientific mode of thought.
For example, the older, pre-scientific account of the human body had regarded a person's social rank as destined by nature.
Indeed, one of the interesting aspects of the work is the eloquent witness that he provides for precisely these pre-scientific ways of thinking.
It is, of course, a pre-scientific agricultural society, that turned to magic and superstition to assist them with their crops.
Thus science provides human beings a degree of control over the material world that pre-scientific societies could only dream of.
There's almost a sense that people are turning the clock back to more superstitious pre-scientific times.
Those who dismiss God as a product of psychological conditioning or pre-scientific myth have not come to terms with the findings of modern science.
All the religions which come out of a pre-scientific world need to be reinterpreted and modernised.
But it is only a story, from a pre-scientific world.
We can dismiss the pre-scientific belief in the magical powers of crystals and gemstones as due to the lack of scientific knowledge.
It is a pre-scientific concept that has been outmoded by modern scientific understanding of matter and natural laws.