Tuesday, September 29, 2009

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"


The Right that Jefferson is talking about is Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.since every man is equal everyone should be treated equal. and man was also born free and it should be kept that way too.Also, according to the Declaration of Independence, the government comes from us from the people , anyone of us normal people could become a government you don't have to be born as a president or your dad doesn't have to be a president for you to be one . also the government doesn't just do what he wants he get his power from the people that vote for him we have the power to get him out if he is not doing the right thing. The people have power on the president.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo


Copernicus and the trial of Galileo
In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galileo started , two worlds come into conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism were against with the world of Scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church.And since Galileo was against absolutism the end of his liberty and the end of the Renaissance came.
Galileo was very smart he had two theories about the solar system which were
the geocentric and the heliocentric. Geocentric-that the earth is the center of universe and other objects go around it. heliocentric-is the theory that the Sun is stationary and at the center of the universe.
the first theory he had was The Geocentric theory , then he made another theory which was The Heliocentric theory .Also the theory hat came out of the scientific revolution was the heliocentric one that Galileo believed that the sun was the center and that the earth was one of the planet that was around the sun or revolved around.And the correct theory was the heliocentric theory.
The trial of Galileo was basically about him and his theory and the fact he didn't support the absolutism and church, because he had a different way of thinking about science , earth ,etc.
Dominican friar Niccolo Lorini files a complaint with the Roman Inquisition against Galileo's views. Included with the complaint is a copy of Galileo's 1613 letter to Castelli.Then Galileo travels to Rome to defend him self and prove them his theory. Galileo was prohibited to teach his theory so they put him on trial he ask for his trial to be moved to Florence but the Romans didn't move it . the catholic church was putting him in trial because they prohibit
Galileo to not teach his theory because they didn't though it was true they didnt believe it and Galileo didn't pay much attention to what the church prohibited him to do. Galileo believed in his theory that that sun was the center and that the planet revolved around it. but the Catholic Church didn't believe that , because it was opposite to a literal reading of the Bible . But at the end when Galileo was dead they admitted that Galileo's theory was correct.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method



Scientific Revolution was a new way of thinking about science and experimenting. At this time scientist would be experimenting and trying to prove their theory or proving another's scientist theory . Scientist argued about who was right or not and to prove if is true. Also scientist got eager to find important information , to  investigate, to make up theories and prove them. It took them time to find about  the world around us.
Scientific Method was the way to observe and prove you theory. there are step for this too. first you need a theory, then test your theory,make a hypothesis , observe, write down predictions ,have data  and consistent, then you would see  if your theory is right. And example of a  scientific method could be something about DNA example-genetic inheritance.


Monday, September 14, 2009

Evolution Vs. Creation


Evolution- The theory of evolution is basically about natural selecting and Darwin's theory.natural selection talk about how nature select who is gonna live and if an animal has genetic advantages there is a greater chance of survival. with genetic variation, advantages help evolution and when mutation occurs for good , for animal benefits helps the evolution of an animal .sometimes because of that an animal/living organism can totally change .

Creation- is a religious belief that human/living organism were created by gods , god , or a superhuman .and how man and women were created and human evolution.



well i cant really choose which one i believe in because i do believe in god but there ain't really no prove that he made us , or that he had supernatural powers, or that he created all of this the only prove is a book written during that time which is the bible but there are so many story and so many religions that believe in it and some don't so I'm not really sure about that . but then again i cant say i believe in the theory of evolution even though it makes more sense and they have some proves. but i still can't choose.