CONPTT

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CONPTT

• What is this?

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Consistent

• Results same time after time.
• No contradiction.

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Reality Check

• Green plants grow towards light source.
• Walking under a ladder causes bad luck.
• Using consistency-which statement is a scientific
  one?

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Observability

• The event-observed and explained.
• Use human senses.

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Reality Check

• Some plants eat meat.
• Extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth.
• Using observability, which statement above is a
  scientific one?

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Natural

• A natural cause explains what happened.

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Reality Check

• Green plants convert sunlight into energy.
• By picking up a penny (heads up), you will have
  good luck all day.
• Using the idea of Natural, which of the
  statements is a scientific one?

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Predictability

• Make specific predictions.
• Predictions can be tested.

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Reality Check

• Without light, green plants will die.
• If you are a Scorpio, todays horoscope says
  you will receive money.
• Thinking of Predictability, which statement is a
  scientific one?

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Testability

• Must be testable through processes of science.
• Controlled experimentation.

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Reality Check

• The Bermuda Triangle causes ships and planes to
  sink and disappear.
• Life comes from life and cannot come from
  non-life.
• Using the testability, which statement above is a
  scientific one?

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Tentativeness

• Science does not have all the answers or
  solutions.
• Theories can be modified.

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Reality Check

• The number of human chromosomes was once know to
  be 48 now it is 46.
• Living things were once grouped into two
  categories. Now there are six categories since
  criteria has changed or two domains.
• Based on tentativeness, which statement is a
  scientific one?

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What is Science?

• Limited to natural world- use scientific
  processes
• Offers explanations for events-subject to
  revision(tentative)
• Not able to answer all the questions in the
  universe, nor solve all the problems

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Non-Science

• Does not meet the criteria of CONPTT.
• Topics may be very logical.
• Example-philosophy, personal opinions, ethics.

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False Science

• Pseudoscience-non science, sometimes portrayed as
  a legitimate science.
• Example-astrology.

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Look at the following 25 questions and determine
if they can be answered scientifically or not.

• Answer the questions on paper in a yes or no
  format.

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25 What causes acid rain?

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24 Does breaking a mirror cause bad luck?

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23 What causes things to fall?

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22 What causes the sky to be blue?

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21 Is music beautiful?

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20 What is sex? (gender)

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2 Can ghosts say BOO?

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1 What causes earthquakes?

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3 What makes fossils?

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4 What makes food spoil?

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5 What is love?

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6 What causes day and night?

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7 How do new species form?

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8 What causes the earths seasons?

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9 How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

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10 What makes people sick?

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11 Does a soul leave the body of a person who
dies?

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12 What causes salt to form crystals?

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13 Does crossing your fingers protect you from
evil?

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14 What causes sunsets?

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15 What causes eclipses?