NATS 1730 Lecture 4: Topic Scientific Change Lecture 4
15 Feb 2017
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Intrinsic falsifyability - the statement about nature that can be proven wrong by observation, scientifically valid question (e. g. The sun rises because a man in a chariot brings the sun across the sky is a scientifically valid statement because it can be proven wrong by observation. We were made in god"s likeness is not a scientifically valid statement because science cannot not prove it to be wrong. ) Scientific law - statement that summarizes a series of observations (e. g. newton"s second law: F = ma) a scientific law can be wrong but not broken, if a law is wrong it must either be thrown away or amended; all it takes is one counter example to disprove a law. Scientific theory - attempts to explain a series of observations, and why things are the way they are (e. g. the big bang theory, quantum theory, etc)
