J. Mauricio M. Herrera Cuadra

Few scientists are able to accurately formulate the science concept, one of the definitions is the one from Arturo Rosenblueth: "Science is the ordered knowledge of the natural phenomena and of its mutual relations... the scientific knowledge takes care of the reproduceable aspects of nature... the science man wants to systematize and legislate the past experience and to predict the future one" (Perez Tamayo, 1984). With this in mind, can we say that Biology is a science?

There are some who think that Biology exists from the moment when man puts himself in contact with nature and has interest in knowing the different animals and plants that surround him, to give name and find some utility for them. What is not valued when this point of view is assumed is that all that activity of searching, accumulation, and ordering of information and knowledge, does not have the scientificity statute (Ledesma Mateos, 1993).

Remembering Rosenblueth's definition it is possible to say that Biology is a science, since it takes care to reproduce the phenomena of nature thus to be able to interpret it. The scientificity character is given by the type of research that is made, because this can be descriptive, in which a single compilation of already made works is done, thus to be able to aim towards new research horizons.

Biology is a science since it takes care to interpret the nature, according to the scientific method, which establishes the resolution of hypotheses raised by the researcher, by means of using different techniques for the creation of representative models of nature. In addition, it is helped by other sciences, as they are Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics, which help the researcher to produce a more representative model from the real one, and thus to be more accurate in his predictions.

Finally we can respond to this question, saying that all the character of Biology is going to depend on the conceptual load of the researcher, because science is going to advance accordingly to the rules properly imposed by him, there must exist an interaction between the objectivity and the subjectivity of the things, this is in my point of view the most important...