Sunday, September 20, 2009

Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

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The Heliocentric theory is that the sun in the center of the universe and all 9 planets surround the sun. This theory was created my scientist during the Scientific Revolution and may were kill for opposing the Christian church. The Christian Church opposed this because they thought that everything has to surround around them HUMAN are the center of everything because God made us. The geocentric theory is that the earth is the center of the universe and everything surrounds around the earth but this was incorrect but people believed in it because no bothered to see if it was right until Nicolas Copernicus proved it wrong.

Trial of Galileo was about a scientist named Galileo Galileo who wrote a book on the teaching of the Heliocentric theory. He had to face trial against the Holy Church and was forced to say he was wrong. But Galileo refused to say he was wrong because he knew he was right and he couldn't live with a lie. In the end he said he was wrong but when he was walking out the court he said I'm still right and was forced to be housed arrest for the rest of his life.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Scientific Revolution

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The Scientific Revolution was when people started to questioning thing and experiment to get answers, instead of listening to what the church says. Scientist would use the Scientific Method to find out problems they wanted to know. Before the Scientific Revolution people would go to the church for answers and what they said what right in reality it wasn't. Most of the thing the church would say was incorrect and scientist came to prove them wrong.The method or procedure they would follow was Hypothesis, Observation, Collect Data, and Inference.

Hypothesis- is a smart guess a scientist had about something they are going to experiment.
Observation- what they notice, things that happen during the experiment.
Collected Data- results found in the experiment.
Inference- explanation for why results came out how they did.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Evolution Vs. Creation

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The theory of Evolution was created by Charles Darwin in the 1800's. He wrote a book in 1859 on his theory of Evolution called On the Origin of Species. His book express his thoughts on all humans being animals and how everything evolved from an ancestor. Charles Darwin wasn't the first person to come up with this theory of Evolution but he became famous by it cause, he was the first to write a book and have hard evidence to prove it. The only problem with the theory of Evolution is that if everything evolved from one animal, which got more complex over a long period of time then which was what is the animal?

The Christians, Jews, and Muslims all believe in the old testament which is the belief that God created the first man in his image. Its written that it took God 7 days to make the earth. And after he made the earth he took clay and shaped in to a man who was Adam. And put Adam in the Garden of Eden to watch over it. He was able to eat from any tree in the garden but the Tree of Knowledge. Later God made Eve because Adam was getting lonely, and were punished for eating from the Tree of Knowledge.

I myself believe in Creation because i was raised believing about God and the stories in the bible. And the stories may seem unbelievable but religion is based on faith if you don't have faith then how can you have faith in general. And if you really do think about it, it does make scene that we all came from Adam and Eve cause they were the two most perfect beings on the planet, and we all got dumber throughout the year cause some of us rape, kill, steal, hurt, and more isn't that dumb.