Thursday, October 1, 2009

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

The geocentric theory was created by the greeks. It states that the earth is the center of the universe. All the other planets and the sun revolved around it. All everyone seen was the earth staying still and everything else moving. That's what lead them to believe this.
The heliocentric came after the geocentric theory. It stated that the earth and all the other planets revolved around the sun. Nicholas Copernicus came up with that theory. But Galileo proved it. 
The catholic church did not approve of this theory. They said it was blasphemy. So the put Galileo on trial and forced him to say he was wrong. On top of that they gave him house arrest. But he was right.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method is a series of steps used to solve problems. The first step of the scientific method is finding a problem. You won't have anything to solve if you don't have a problem. The second step is to research up on that problem for background information.  The third step is creating a hypothesis or an educated guess based on the information you received. The fourth step is to conduct an experiment to test your hypothesis. The fourth step is to analyze the data from the experiment and make a record of it. Finally you make a conclusion based on the data of your experiment and tell if your hypothesis was wrong or correct.
An example of the scientific method is an experiment with cola and Mentos. The question is what will happen when you mix cola and mentos. My hypothesis is that the cola will burst. So for my experiment i will put mentos in cola. What do you know, it exploded. My hypothesis is correct.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Evolution v.s Creation

Evolution is a theory about how the earth and living things evolved. The evolution theory was created by Charles Darwin. Which stated that we adapted to the environment, and began as lower life forms. Then becoming humans.
Creationism  is a theory that states that all man creatures and the planet was created by god. Or a higher life form. Creation is believed by many religions and people. It is taught in the bibles book of Genesis. The first book, it tells everything about man and its creation. It says that god created everything in seven days.
In my opinion i believe they both may be true. Maybe there is a god. Maybe he created us beginning at lower life forms like monkeys. But i don't believe he did it in seven days. It would have had to take millions of years according to science. I don't know.