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    This document provides an assignment on environmental science that includes 5 questions. It asks for definitions of science, whether thought experiments are still useful in science today, if the church should intervene in scientific activities, Charles Darwin's contributions to modern science, and how Darwin's evolutionary theory has influenced economics, agriculture, political science, and religion in modern times. Responses are provided that define science, argue thought experiments are still valuable, say the church should not intervene in science, explain Darwin completed the Copernican Revolution for biology, and discuss how evolution relates to those fields.

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    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

    Assignment 1:

    1.) Give 4 difinitions of science.

    •science is a knowledge about the natural world that is based on facts learned through expirements and
    observation.

    •science is an area of study that deals with the natura world as (biology or physics).

    •science is a subject that is formally studied the science of linguistics.

    •science is something that can be studied and learned pitching is a science.

    2.) Do you think thought expirements is still useful in science in the present time?

    •Yes, because thought experiment is useful in all aspects of life, not just science. Thought experiments
    allow us to explore possibilities, ponder scenarios, while applying what we already know about the
    world in order to give structure and order to our “experiments”.

    3.) Do you think the Church should intervene in scientific activities?

    •No, I think church should respect and support the drive of the people to make use of their knowledge
    and expertise as a means of finding improvements and advancements or our current living

    4.) What is Darwin's contribution to modern science?

    •Darwin's greatest contribution to science is that he completed the Copernican Revolution by drawing
    out for biology the notion of nature as a system of matter in motion governed by natural laws. ... They
    jointly ushered in the beginning of science in the modern sense of the word: explanation through
    natural laws.

    5.) How can Darwin's evolutionary theory influence the following fields in modern times; a) economy, b)
    agriculture, c) political science, d) religion

    a.) economy

    -From an economic point of view it means the poor can go to the wall. It’s survival of the fittest and
    anyone with some flaw that might weaken humanity would not be allowed to breed and create more
    weaklings.

    b.) agriculture

    -That evolution occured, in agriculture for example, was one of the observations that the theory of
    evolution was explaining.Basically, farmers and breeders had been using the observation of evolution…
    that they could apply selection pressures to breed for traits that they wanted.This lead to some
    significant changes over many generations

    .c.) political science

    -Ever since it was first properly formulated by Darwin, the theory has been used to advance a variety of
    political projects. It is not only “social Darwinist” supporters of laissez-faire capitalism who have claimed
    that their political ideals were grounded in evolutionary theory. So have Nazis, communists, anarchists
    and Fabian social engineers. Today, Darwinism is invoked as part of a campaign against religion by
    people who claim to be liberals. Behind the rival political programmes to which Darwinism has been
    yoked lies Huxley’s belief that humankind is now in a position to direct its future evolution.

    d.) religion

    -On the Origin of Species reflects theological views. Though he thought of religion as a tribal survival
    strategy, Darwin still believed that God was the ultimate lawgiver, and later recollected that at the time
    he was convinced of the existence of God as a First Cause and deserved to be called a theist.

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