Monday, September 21, 2009

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo


Third planet from the sun: Believe it or not people weren't always smart. One fine example is the theory of geocentrism. The idea is that (get this) the earth is the center of the solar system. To no surprise the roman catholic church backed up this idea but then a man named Galileo Galilei came and said that heliocentrism is the right way to go (belief that we revolve around the solar system revolves around the sun). The church being its charming self put Galileo on trial they stated that he had violated the 1616 (so-called) injunction against teaching, holding, or writing about Copernican theory. Galileo and the church had two totally different views and the church being bigger won over Galileo and he was forced into house arrest. And that is the famous story of Heliocentrism.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method


The scientific method is a method used to prove something in the scientific community. Basically its steps used to set up an experiment. If the experiment can be replicated with the same result then its considered a fact. Steps involving thinking of an idea,Thinking of an hypothesis, Creating an experiment to prove the hypothesis, and Analyzing your result. It all started during the scientific revolution where people instead of just talking and making up facts actually started conducting test to prove that they were right.
Proving that im right:
a scientific method that is well done and formulated may look something like this
Observation- Flowers grow when its sunny.
Analysis- Constant trips to the garden at home depot.
Hypothesis- If flowers had no sun I bet they wouldn't grow.
Test- Ill get a bunch of flowers and ill try to grow some in the sun and some in my closet.
Analyze- It seems that the flowers in the closet haven't grown....how peculiar.
Results- Yeah I was correct.

Evolution V.S. Creation


Viva la Evolution:
The theory of evolution is the idea that all of life on earth today derives from a common ancestor, that all of us throughout the years have evolved to were we are now. The man that spear headed this idea was Charles Darwin. While on a trip to the Galapagos he noticed that the same finches had different beaks on every island. According to the theory of evolution we started off as simple cells and evolved from that.
The Creation of Creationism:
The theory of creationism is that god magically created the earth and all of its belongings in a mere 7 days. It is said that when he created earth he also made Adam but then Adam got lonely and a female companion named Eve was made. Then after thousands of years of reproduction societies formed and then etc.
In my Opinion:
I believe in Evolution. It just makes sense to me because God creating the world seems to not explain the different variations of animals. Also we have proof of our ancestors and of dinosaurs. We basically have a boat load of fossils and data that prove that we did have ancestors that we have evolved from. Creationism seems to lazy of an idea if you ask me but that's just my opinion.