Life Science 15: Concepts and IssuesLecture 2: Intro to Life Science/Science as a Religion1/12/12I. Age of ScienceII. Who am I?III. Scientific ThinkingScientific MethodOrganizedEmpiricalMethodicalStructured way of finding info about observable events in natureEnables us to reject hypotheses about how world worksA way to learn and understand anything1. Make Observations2. Formulate hypothesis-is it testable?-is it refutable?3. Make a prediction-if my hypothesis is true, when I do ‘x’ then ‘y’ will occur4. Conduct an experiment -control all variables, but one-randomized?-double blind?“I will confine myself to one special difficulty, which at first appeared to me insuperable,and actually fatal to the whole theory. I allude to the… sterile females in insect-communities;… they cannot propagate their kind.”-Charles DarwinIs eye-witness testimony infallible? How could you answer this with certainty?-How reliable? How could we test this?-find cases where later on they were proven innocent through DNA testing-conclusion: eyewitness reliability depends on the way suspects are presented The Scientific Method- an efficient pathway to understanding the
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