BIOL 1001 Chapter : August202012
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The soul weighs 21 grams = pseudoscience. Pseudoscience can be neither proved nor disproved. Inductive reasoning: a generalization is created from many obsersvations, ex. Cell theory (all living things are composed of cells) Deductive reasoning: the process of generating hypotheses based on a well-supported generalization (theory) All scientific inquiry is based on: natural casuality ( cause and effect , uniformity in space and time. Scientific theory: general explanations for important natural phenomena, extensively and reproducibly tested. It"s more like a principle or natural law. If compelling evidence arises, a theory may be modified.
