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| 1331562552 | Technologically, intellectually, politically | Timothy Ferris believes that science has already transformed the world ____. | 0 | |
| 1331562553 | Scientific illiteracy, ignorance of cutter scientific research and findings, math phobia, skepticism or incredulity of scientific findings. | What is a problem with the general public's current understanding of science? | 1 | |
| 1331562554 | They help elucidate the nature of science, including the scientific method. They critically examine scientific concepts that are used by working scientists. They critique scientific claims. | According to Massimo Pigliucci, what are philosophers of science good for? | 2 | |
| 1331562555 | Explain, describe, predict, control natural | The empirical sciences seek to ___ phenomena in the world. | 3 | |
| 1331562556 | the observation of phenomena, review of the scientific literature. the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena. experimentation (or some other means) to test the hypothesis | The scientific method usually involves ____. | 4 | |
| 1331562557 | theory | A ____ is a systematically organized knowledge applicable in a wide variety of circumstances, esp. a system of assumptions, principles, and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict, or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of specified phenomena. | 5 | |
| 1331562558 | How reliable is the source of the claim? Does this source often make similar claims? Have the claims been verified by another source? How does this fit with what we already know about the world and how it works? | Which of the following is a question that we can ask when evaluating the scientific legitimacy of a novel claim? | 6 | |
| 1331562559 | paradigms | Thomas Kuhn argued that scientific thought is defined by ____ which are conceptual worldviews (that is, disciplinary matrixes or exemplars) consisting of beliefs, values, and techniques shared by members of a given community. | 7 | |
| 1331562560 | refining its theories and laws, solving various puzzles, establishing more accurate measurements of constants. | According to Kuhn, scientists accept a prevailing paradigm in "normal science" and attempt to articulate it by ____. | 8 | |
| 1331562561 | crisis | According to Kuhn, the accumulation of anomalies triggers a ____ that is sometimes resolved by a revolution that replaces the old paradigm with a new one. | 9 | |
| 1331562562 | None | With which statement(s) would Weinberg agree about the universe's apparent fine-tuning? a. He is extremely impressed by the examples of fine-tuning of the constants of nature. b. We will never discover any more examples of fine-tuning in the future. c. The many-universe (multiverse) hypothesis has been firmly established, which refutes the fine-tuning argument. | 10 | |
| 1331562563 | The energy levels of carbon. | What example does Weinberg cite to illustrate the fine-tuning argument? | 11 | |
| 1331562564 | No, it is not necessary that humans have such abstract thoughts and to be able to have the leisure to sit around talking about it. It may be that in the great majority of planets where life arises and evolves, only that measure of intelligence evolves which is strictly necessary for breeding and eating. | What was Weinberg's response to the following question raised by Polkinghorne: "Why is it that we are so fortunate to be able to do quantum mechanics and do mathematics? Is it really necessary from evolution that we should be able to do this?" | 12 | |
| 1331562565 | True | Weinberg agrees with Polkinghorne that science is not everything. | 13 | |
| 1331562566 | Scientists are helped in their work by non-rational processes involving an aesthetic sense of beauty, which is very well developed among mathematicians. Mathematicians have nothing to say about the beauty and order that one sees in the physical world. Mathematics is the science of order and mathematicians see order in an abstract inner directed way, which often turns out to be relevant to the real world | With which of the following statement(s) regarding mathematics would Weinberg agree? | 14 | |
| 1331562567 | None. | With which statement(s) regarding morality would Weinberg agree?a. There is never a gulf between statements with the word "is" and statements with the word "ought." The two are essentially the same. b. Science can tell us how we ought to behave. c. There is a moral order in the world. d. All of the above. | 15 | |
| 1331562568 | False | Polkinghorne would agree with Weinberg that morality is not discovered but made up by humans. | 16 | |
| 1331562569 | Theology does make progress, albeit slowly. Humans discover meaning as well as construct it. cHumans are not defiant inhabitants of an island of meaning in an ocean of meaninglessness, but that in fact the world has a meaning that extends beyond us. | With which statement(s) would Polkinghorne agree? | 17 | |
| 1331562570 | ... | With which statement(s) regarding meaning would Weinberg agree? | 18 | |
| 1331562571 | True | Polkinghorne would agree with Weinberg in saying that if something (e.g., objective moral order or God's existence) is not true, then it is better that we know it. | 19 |
