Sunday, September 20, 2009

The trail of Galileo



During the Middle Ages there were many theories about the solar system. The two therios were the Heliocentric and the geocentric theories. The heliocentric theory is that the sun is in the center of the universe and all the other planets revolve around the sun. The geocentric theory is that the Earth is the center of the universe and the planets revolve around it. They started to develop many mathematics and science skills and were able to use there prior-knowlege to figure out that the earth was not the center of the universe.They finally discovered that the Planets really do revolve around the sun. So basically the correct theory was Heliocentric theory.They had proof to prove there statement that the sun was bigger than the earth and it was also in the center of the universe.

Galileo Galilei was an Italian teacher that faced trial in 1633. He was arrested for teaching his students about evolution. The Catholic church were the one that had him on trail because in his book he had written that the planets did not revolve around the Sun. His beliefs were different than others. He wrote that the planets revolved around the Sun and not the earth. The person behind his belief, and idea's was copernicus. Obviously if your catholic and you believe in the bible you would chose geocentrism and thats what the catholic's did. But Galileo, someone who has been studying science for a while belived in heliocentrism. When Galileo said he didn't believe in geocentrism the catholic's thought he was disrespecting god and the bible. Galileo was punished but they didn't hang him to death. Gailileo theory wasn't wrong and people started to realize that when he died.



The Scienctific Revolution.

What is Scienctific Revolution? Well most scholars got there knowledge about science from the Ancient Greeks, Romans and from the holy bible. At first we thought that the earth was the center of the universe and we believed that the sun and the other 8 planets revoled around the earth. In the 1500’s Galile went to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped stones of different weights to the ground. He proved Aristotle wrong and discoverd that objects of different weights fall at the same speed. Isaac Newton explained the laws of gravity to make way for our modern way of understanding physics. Aristotle thought that one set of physical laws ruled earth and that another set took over the universe. Issac Newtown stated that a universal law of gravitation was put to use equally to earth and the heavens.
The scientific method is a process by which scientists construct an accurate answer or statement to prove a hypothesis. First you ask a question, do background research, construct a hypothesis, test it with an experiment, analyze results by drawing conclusions. Then you decide wheather the hypothesis is true or its false. If it's false or partially true you try the experiment again. The you report the results you came with to prove your hypothesis

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Evolution Vs. Creation

what is evolution? Evolution is when a type of organism is Reformed. It goes through stages and just like evolution. You start off from an ape and then slowly transform into a human being. When you think of Evolution you think of monkey and apes and you wonder if you really went through the transformation from generation to generation. Alot of sciencetists think that the closest thing a human is to are apes. The first debate was between Thomas Hexley and Richard Owen. Thomas argued for human evolution by showing illustrations and pointing out the similarities between humans and apes.

Creation, its something that is obviously created more like "god's gift". It's the idea that this universe and the natural things in it was created by god. The creation of the world is described in the book of Genesis. In the book its described that god created the heavens and the earth. The creation took "6 days" and Adam and Eve was created that day. Genesis gives another meaning of creation. God made Adam out of clay, prepares the Garden of Eden for him and then takes out Eve out of Adam's rib.

I agree with evolution because its more reasonable, We actually have proof that we come from apes, Its weird but its true. I don't agree with creation because we don't have proof all we have is the book of Genieses. That doesn't prove anything, what if God isn't even real? What if the natural things around us aren't because of god's creation. Alot of science has to do with the things in this universe.