EARTH 7 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Lizard, Cretaceous, Jurassic
Document Summary
A way of knowing other ways to know. Set of logical and empirical methods that provide systematic natural explanations of natural phenomena. Has demonstrated time and time again that it provides one of the best ways to understand the world. Doesn"t apply to all questions and has more authority in some realms and less in others. Self-correcting compared to other systems of knowledge. Scientific method 4 steps: observe (where the evidence comes in, hypothesize (a reasonable explanation for the observation, predict (what are the other implications of the hypothesis. Hypotheses and the predictions they make must be capable of being proven wrong. If this is not the case than it is not a scientific statement. While hypotheses can be very strongly supported they can never be 100% proven. An explanation that has been tested again and again and again and has yet to be disproven.
