Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Today we labeled all our rocks we gathered from alb and the surrounding areas. We washed them and also placed them on a geological time scale to see about how old they are and where exactly they originated.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Answers to questions:
1) Science offers us a powerful tool for the discovery of truth, science is not the only, or even necessarily the best way that humans come to know reality. 
I think that science is an important way to discover the truth because observation and experimentation are key to finding information. I think religion can also be a path to find the truth. Reading and believing can be the truth because I think that the truth is what you believe to be true and can be different for each person. Reality can also be different from person to person so i think religion can play a huge part and be equally important as science on a personal basis for each person.
2) The existence of a single, objective scientific method is a myth. 
Yes it is. Each person can perform science differently and still have a valid answer. There is no one objective method that applies to each person and each experiment.
On the following statement I would like to know if there is a way around this. Can we approach experiments or observations objectivity?
Yes by using a basic outline we can all have similar results put into a different format but one that we can still all relate to and use in an effictive way.
3) We always approach an object, experiment, or observations with a set of prejudgements: we have identified what the problem or question is, we know what information we are looking for, and what counts as an answer.

Example: When we started the physics projects we were only looking for data concerning motion. Were there other things we should be paying attention to?
I think other contributing factors are very important when doing any project. You can not just focus on the outcome you want but look for other things that are happening.