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Scientific Essays and Term Papers
Atom And QiThe atom is the smallest portion of a substance that is not perceivable by human senses. The notion of atoms was conceived by ancient Greeks and was developed over thousands of years of scientific inquiry. The concept of qi as the most basic substance of which the world (everything) is ...
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Consciousness AnalyzedPerhaps there is no phenomenon as familiar and yet as complex and mysterious as consciousness. To date, no satisfactory scientific account of consciousness has been proven, leading philosophers like David Chalmers to conclude that consciousness is not reductively explainable (Chalmers ...
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Is Psychology A Science?In order to answer this question it is important to understand the
definitions of both psychology and science. The word 'psychology' comes
from the Greek 'psyche' (or soul) and 'logos' (or study), which came to be
known as the 'study of the soul'. The American Heritage Dictionary
defines ...
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Teaching Creationism In SchoolThe issue of teaching creationism in the public schools has long been debated. Over the years many different arguments have been made. First creationists tried to have the teaching of evolution outlawed. This issue went to the Supreme Court in 1968, where in _Epperson v. Arkansas_ the high court ...
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Is Psychology A Science?In order to answer this question it is important to understand the
definitions of both psychology and science. The word 'psychology' comes
from the Greek 'psyche' (or soul) and 'logos' (or study), which came to be
known as the 'study of the soul'. The American Heritage Dictionary ...
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Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...
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How Science And Pseudo-science DifferIn the history of mankind, we have strived to understand the world around us, to know and understand how and why things happen. Thus, science was born. Pseudo-science was born, as well. A science tries to explain how and why things happen by creating laws that dictate what Nature does. A ...
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Public AdministrationWHAT IS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION?
Public administration is a discipline drawing from political science, economics, sociology, and other fields to enhance understanding of public bureaucracies and administrative behavior. It has broad applicability to non-profit organizations, non-governmental ...
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Environmental Science and SustainabilityChapter 1
Introducing Environmental Science and Sustainability
Lecture Outline:
I. Human Impacts on the Environment
A. Increasing human numbers
i. Although several million species inhabit Earth, the human species is the most significant agent of environmental change on the ...
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The Positive And Negative Effects Of DNA ProfilingGenetic engineering has developed and blossomed at a frightening rate in
the last decade. Originating as merely an area of interest for scientists,
genetic engineering has now become an area of which all people should be
somewhat knowledgeable.
DNA profiling has many uses, both positive and ...
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EvolutionTABLE OF CONTENTS Page
INTRODUCTION ............................................... 2
DARWINIAN THEORY OF EVOLUTION .............................. 4
THE THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION:
CONTRIBUTING ELEMENTS ....................... 7
WALLACE'S CONTRIBUTIONS ...
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Different Christians Views of CreationDifferent Views of Creation
The Biblical story of creation is well-known. It can be summarized in that God created the world in six days and on the seventh day He rested. It takes place in Genesis 1:1-2-2:25 where God gives a detailed account of what He did exactly in the creation of ...
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EvolutionINTRODUCTION ............................................... 2
DARWINIAN THEORY OF .............................. 4
THE THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL : CONTRIBUTING ELEMENTS ..7
WALLACE'S CONTRIBUTIONS ................................... 13
HARDY-WEINBERG PRINCIPLE .................................. ...
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Comparative View Of Two DinstiNCT SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOURISM AND HUMANISM
In this paper, it is tried to explain the first force (Behaviourism) and the third force (Humanistic Psychology) and, compare differences and similarities between them. Each school of thought in psychology was sometimes born as a reaction to the ...
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Reductive PsychologyI took the subway after a whole day of work. It was already 7 PM, but the heat of the severe summer of Buenos Aires didn’t dismiss the daylight yet. The subway was full. The people felt bothered by the closeness of their neighbors, sources of heat. We did our best to fight against our ...
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An Analysis Of The Philosophy Of ScienceIn my analysis of the philosophy of science, I will attempt to give an analysis of Aristotle’s demonstration and scientific knowledge starting points and how they apply to his theory, his definition in sciences, and scientific enquires of the various questions posted as well as his ideals of ...
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Can Sociology Be Value Free"?" Value neutrality is a term used by Weber to indicate the necessary objectivity researchers need when investigating problems in the social sciences. Weber also cautioned against the making of value judgements which coincide with the orientation or motives of the researcher. It is important to ...
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Born Gay"Our result says that genes are involved in male sexual orientations, although they certainly do not determine a person's sexual orientation," said Dean Hamer, an author of the study. (St.Louis Dispatch)
The growing fad to closely examine gay men and lesbians to find out what causes their ...
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Is More Than One Cause Of AIDS Possible??
“The HIV establishment and its journalist allies have replied to various
specific criticisms of the HIV theory without taking them seriously. They
have never provided an authoritative paper that undertakes to prove that
HIV really is the cause of AIDS.... After ten years of failure, it is ...
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Intelligent Design As A TheoryABSTRACT: For the scientific community intelligent design represents creationism's latest grasp at scientific legitimacy. Accordingly, intelligent design is viewed as yet another ill-conceived attempt by creationists to straightjacket science within a religious ideology. But in fact intelligent ...
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