Summary of “How Did We Get Here?” In the film, “How Did We Get Here?” BBC discusses about how the Earth and life came into place. Through religious teachings and stories, people assumed the answer, but it was not the case. Sloan, a botanist, had an immense interest in finding medicinal plants in nature. It brought out the idea of diversity through public museums. Moreover, in France, fossils were discovered and were later interpreted that “the Earth is older than previously believed” (BBC). Later, Buffon made attempts to calculate the Earth’s age through heating iron balls and counting how long it took for them to cool. His approach was inaccurate, but demonstrated how the Earth’s history should be investigated. During the eighteenth century,
The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, which spanned from the late 1500’s to 1700’s, shaped today’s modern world through disregarding past information and seeking answers on their own through the scientific method and other techniques created during the Enlightenment. Newton’s ‘Philsophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica’ and Diderot’s Encyclopedia were both composed of characteristics that developed this time period through the desire to understand all life, humans are capable of understanding the Earth, and a sense of independence from not having to rely on the nobles or church for knowledge.
In class we read the book, Life As We Knew It, by Susan B. Pfeffer. It is about a girl named Miranda who lives in New York with her mom, and brother Matt who is coming home from college. They see on the news that an asteroid is going to collide with the moon, so Miranda, Laura and Johnny throw a party. When the asteroid hits the moon, the moon becomes a lot closer to the Earth. Many world catastrophes start to occur around the world like massive tsunamis, tornadoes and lightning storms. What I will be talking about is my favorite scenes from the story.
"Life as We Knew It," is a book by Beth Pfeffer, which is known to be science fiction. The story involves environmental changes, which involves science but can be fictional as well because it is not likely to happen in reality. So this story was written by Beth Pfeffer and she had decided to write this book after watching a show about a meteor. She asked herself, what it would be like to be a teenager living in a catastrophe. Beth later came up with the story, writing it as a 16 year old girl's diary. The story first main point starts out with everyone getting ready to watch a meteor pass and ends up hitting the moon.
“Finding Our Way” is a belief that education is important for everyone, which can be used as a guide to help us through the world. Mike Rose explains that we learn things outside of books as well, through curiosity with or without education. Using that education we pass down to ensure the young will be ready for the real world. These experiences are archive by attending classes and learning, teachers can have a big part by teaching us things we did not or never known before. Which can come down to the topic you're interested in, they could help keep you engaged in what you want to know. The main point is that knowledge truly is power and that it can help us make educated decisions
Society has changed drastically throughout the centuries, but have become corrupted by many essentials. Many debates have been occurring over this topic, but Humans are born pure, but society has corrupted them to be evil due to the government, surroundings, and religion which makes evil extrinsic.
Before the discovery of radiometric methods to determine the age of the Earth, the first few attempts were off by thousands of millions
Until the early 1900's, scientists used several methods of measurement in their efforts to determine the age of the Earth. They studied sedimentation and erosion, stratification (with fossil evidence), measured the salinity of the oceans, and used thermodynamics to determine loss of heat since the Earth's beginning. Each of these approaches yielded estimates that the Earth was anywhere from 24 to 100 million years old.
We probably all believe that we got here either, by accident, being created by a superior being or both. The Jews and Christians both believe that they were created by a superior being named: God. The Judeo-Christian tradition is that God created the earth over the course of six days and that He rested on the seventh day. Genesis 1 also states that He made man in His own image, this is something that I agree with as a Christian. However how do others believe we got here? They either believe that we arrived here by accident, or by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, that is mentioned in his book The Origin of Species by Natural Selection. These ideas have been around for more than 250 years and people have seemed to side with either the Judeo-Christian tradition or Darwin’s theory of creation.
The earth was created by gods or animals but how were humans
During the seventeenth century, the scientific revolution in Europe was at its peak, changing people’s lives through the new techniques of the scientific method. Citizens of western civilizations had previously used religion as the lens through which they perceived their beliefs and customs in their communities. Before the scientific revolution, science and religion were intertwined, and people were taught to accept religious laws and doctrines without questioning; the Church was the ultimate authority on how the world worked. However, during this revolution, scientists were inspired to learn and understand the laws of the universe had created, a noble and controversial move toward truth seeking. The famous scientists of the time, such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton, were known to be natural philosophers, intending to reveal God’s mystery and understand (through proof) the majesty of God. Throughout previous centuries, people had hypothesized how the world and natural phenomenon may work, and new Protestant ideals demanded constant interrogation and examination. Nevertheless, some of these revelations went against the Church’s teachings and authority. If people believed the Church could be wrong, then they could question everything around them, as well. As a result, the introduction of the scientific method, a process by which scientists discovered and proved new theories, was revolutionary because it distinguished what could be proved as real from what was simply
Life of Pi by Yann Martel, first published in 2002, is the story of Piscine Molitor Patel. Piscine, later shortened by himself to Pi, is the main character, the protagonist, and throughout most of this novel just a teenager. At the beginning of the story the reader is taken to the world of Pondicherry, India and to the Pondicherry Zoo run by the Patel Family. The Patel family consists of Pi’s mom, Gita, his dad Santosh and his older brother Ravi.
Stokstad posits that these ideas have roots in the previous scientific revolution of the century before it, with philosophers such as Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes establishing what we now know as the scientific method based on logical reasoning, educated guesses and controlled experiments to prove them. The astronomer Galileo Galilei confirmed a previous theory by Nicolaus Copernicus that the sun did not revolve around the Earth and that it was the other way around-- the planets revolved around the sun. These theories and practices went against the Church's teachings, and Galileo in particular was forced to take back what he said on his observations. Other scientists made discoveries on smaller scales relating to the animal kingdom and plant life, and artists were used to convey the new-found information by painting or drawing those findings. (p. 756) With the different revolutions and events that took place before the eighteenth century, it could be said that the Enlightenment was just a logical progression and the next step.
Scott and colleagues conducted study in 1965 to further define the toxicity of chloramphenicol, a drug which has clinical advantages as an antibiotic1. Furthermore, Chloramphenicol is known to cause aplastic anemia – a form of bone-marrow depression - which has extended morbidity and high mortality1. From administering various doses of chloramphenicol to middle-aged and elderly men, Scott et Al.’s study1 concluded a dose between 25 to 30 mg. prevents the onset of detrimental side effects of chloramphenicol. Despite Scott et Al.’s contribution to science, the study method would not be considered ethical today by the Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 (TCPS2) guidelines with specific violations pertaining to consent and core principles. Moreover, Scott et Al.’s study shares similarities with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, emphasizing how guidelines are necessary to prevent history from repeating.
This method is used to determine the exact age of fossils, artifacts and the earth. This involves, examining several strata of the crust of the earth to show the time intervals of one layer of rock to another layer as well as use the layering principle to confirm the series of cultures.
Life has continually perplexed and fascinated individuals since the dawn of mankind. The subject’s complexity is so great even over the course of human existence only a minute fraction of its mysteries have been unraveled. A phenomenon which has always intrigued scientists is the origin of life on Earth, and in recent years significant advancements have been made in the understanding of this enigma. This essay will briefly outline two theories regarding life’s origin on Earth to further comprehend why an explanation for this phenomenon has been so difficult to reach.