Geography 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Geochemistry, Orbital Inclination, Carbon-14
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Exam: will be alumni, the discussion topic is live at the moment. Fact or fantasy: on going question whether or not there is change. These questions can be resolved by viewing the evidence and dating of deposits. The grounding of beliefs may not have any grounding at all. This goes down to the dating of that evidence. Evidence is a piece of information that supports a conclusion. Most of what people believe is unsupported by evidence. Nevertheless, ideas are stronger when backed by information that your audience accepts. It is important to distinguish scientific form non scientific forms of evidence. It is important to distinguish evidence from non-evidence: non evidence includes items such as beliefs and ideas. Determining the age of pieces of evidence. No point in evidence if there is no proof or idea of when that piece of evidence came into existence. Carbon 14"s long half life is very useful.