Scientia Texts Published: 55
Updated: 06/19/2003
Title: A New Kind of Literacy Author: Susan Greenfield
Subject: Scientific Method Published: 06/19/2003

"The only way to evaluate the implications of science is, of course, to be scientifically literate, and one can only be scientifically literate if one is willing to have an open mind and stop expecting our scientists alone to be the conscience of the nation."

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Title: Meet My Cousin The Chimpanzee Author: Richard Dawkins
Subject: Biology, Evolution Published: 05/04/2003

"Molecular evidence suggests that our common ancestor with chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between five and seven million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards."

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Title: A Glossary of Frequently Misused or Misunderstood Physics Terms and Concepts Author: Donald E. Simanek
Subject: Physics, Scientific Method Published: 05/04/2003

"Technical terms of science have very specific meanings. Standard dictionaries are not always the best source of useful and correct definitions of them. This glossary is not intended to be complete. It focuses on those terms which give students particular difficulties."

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Title: Science and Religion: Natural Enemies Author: Judith L. Hayes
Subject: Scientific Method, Science vs. Religion Published: 04/03/2003

"Stephen Jay Gould referred to science and religion as "non-overlapping magisteria." Non-overlapping? Hardly! The Judeo-Christian tradition embraces, as truths, such things as talking animals, a talking burning bush, the parting of the Red Sea, the sun "standing still" for Joshua, food falling out of the sky, a human walking on water, people rising from their graves, and several individuals "ascending" bodily into heaven. Such "truths" require the suspension of the laws of nature; if that is not overlapping the field of science I cannot imagine what would."

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