Friday, September 18, 2009

Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

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The Geocentric theory explains that in the solar system the Earth is the center of everything & that everything revolves around it. Back in the day , many Philosophers that were Greeks & Chinese was popular with the idea. They also though that the sun, stars, planets made a perfect circles around the Earth.

The Heliocentric explanation of the solar system is that the Sun is the center of the universe & that the planets revolve it. The way the planets circle the Sun is in an elliptical shape. This theory was mathematically proved by Nicoluas Copernicus. Heliocentric is the correct explanation of our solar system , it was also developed by the Scientific Revolution. Many religious people like the Catholics in the church were against the theory because they believed in the other theory. Today in life the theory is accepted in almost everywhere.

The Catholic church didn't believe that the Earth was in the center of the Universe. This is why Galileo went to trail. Galileo was an astronomer , philosopher & mathematician and also was one of the people who helped in the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was punished but not put to death , he was tortured in jail.





Thursday, September 17, 2009

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

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The Scientific Revolution started by having many questions that the church couldn't answer. The way scientist would answer their answers is by using Scientific Method. The experimented over & over again to approve or disapprove an idea. Scientist started to prove the church wrong. The Scientific Method included of : making observations , then making a "hypothesis" describing what you see , with the hypothesis you'll make predictions & test it with a experiment. When you've done that a few more times then you'll make sure you have the same results.

A theory that uses Scientific Method is what Galileo did with Aristotle theory that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. Galileo threw a bowling ball & a baseball from the Learning Tower of Pisa. They both fell at the same rate. He found out that different weights fall at the same speeds.

Evolution VS. Creation

The theory evolution is based on man being animals, and we all come from a common ancestor. This theory was started by Charles Darwin, even though Charles Darwin was the first one to come up with the theory , he was he first one to write a book about it he had lots of evidence . The theory also states that the world was to hot for life to form. It took many years for the first spices to form, after formed it took many,many more years to make us humans a.k.a animals. Charles Darwin first discovered that this theory was correct when he went to Galapagos Island. He saw the different type of finches each island.

Creation is based on God making two human beings who reproduced making all these people in the world today. The theory is in the Bible, naming Adam & Eve reproducing to give birth to two sons. For all these people to get made has to pass millions of years. The theory has been passed on by many generations.What the theory hasn't done is explain how two males reproduce to make more people ? There has been many questions & even priest can't answer them . Creation is a theory where you are brothers & sisters of everyone , somehow .

I agree more with the evolution theory because it makes more sense to me. The mutations over years are more realistic. I've been taught to that theory growing up. Evolution explains that all animals & humans have the same ancestors. I believe that evolution has many different ideas of how natural selection has worked over centuries.
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