GEOL 1001 Chapter : GEOL 1001 Chapter1-2 Notes
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Science is a process is all about making a observation. A hypothesis needs to be able to be able to be varied. A deductive reasoning approach within a body of knowledge. Explains observation in a new way using one or several reasons. Reason can be a thought experiment, a computer program. If you know the answer already its not science. Barriers to science are human greed dishonesty, fear of change,hunger for power, cultural conditioning. The geolgic record ( principle of unifromitariasim) and geological processes. Means if you study the present is the key to the past. Extend- what we know about today can be appied to anything in the universe. Natural laws do not change but rates, intensity and loction. Some events are harder to see in the present. The chances that a bolide 1-2 km in diameter will hit the earth by 2880 a. d. is 1:300.
