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Published on: 2014-05-20
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Science is a temple built with human hands. It is not an apparatus that relentlessly cranks out answers from ice-cold observations swallowed like mouthfuls of krill into a whale. There is no linear arrow of scientific progress. The collection of ancient mysteries and modern controversies from the fields of Earth and environmental science in ‘Earth Dramas’ illustrate how the scientific enterprise is affected by a range of social, cultural and psychological factors. The undergrowth of science is a shady place where different interpretations are fermented and hide from the light of day. Scientists become actors in a drama with a storyline they did not themselves compose. The drama is not some inevitable part of a natural order, but is the creation of human thinking and interaction. Despite this, science has been fantastically successful, and the use of world-pictures does not strongly undermine the objectivity of a result that has been fought hard for, weighed, tested and replicated, and passed into the hallowed ground of acceptance. The 12 main chapters of ‘Earth Dramas’ give a flavour of some of the dramas that have arisen in the past and continue to strongly influence current controversies about the Earth and its environment. Understanding these dramas is essential for the effective translation of scientific discovery to society, so that we avoid a ‘dark sarcasm in the classroom’. After an introductory chapter that takes a general view of the way in which world-pictures colour the scientific enterprise, the following 11 chapters give various examples of how scientific debate proceeds or has proceeded. Some of these examples are long disputes that eventually converge onto a broadly held consensus, while others are contemporary areas of often cantankerous disagreement. In several examples, the roles of external agencies are illuminated, whether they are multinational corporations, the media or the demands of society at large. Topics covered are continental drift, the phoney war between science and religion over evolution, the Gaia hypothesis of a self-regulating planet, the recognition of an Age of Man (the ‘Anthropocene’), the controversy about global glaciation in the past known as ‘Snowball Earth’, the age of the Earth, mass extinctions and the demise of the dinosaurs, stories of great floods, including Noah’s Flood, the deep circulation of the Earth, the subterranean architecture of the sedimentary rocks beneath our feet and the carbon crisis that threatens global climate change. The book concludes with some thoughts as to why scientific findings are commonly greeted with mistrust and cynicism by society, and proposes that science needs to be humanized rather than ‘imposed’. The book is written in a literary style, with historical anecdotes, portraits of the main players, brief philosophical reflections, story-telling and even poetry. It is thought provoking, educational, creatively written and entertaining. 7 Big Questions About Battlestar Galacticas Finale The ... Secondly one of the best parts of BSG was how the shows creators repeatedly confronted the issue of dissent among the fleet. They consistently went out of their ... Muse Entertainment - Muse Entertainment News Muse Entertainment has acquired the rights to Ampd the debut novel by two-time Emmy award nominated screenwriter and author Ken Pisani. Ampd is set to be ... Entertainment - Wikipedia Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task but is more ... Best Fantasy Series BestFantasyBooks.com This series tops the Top 25 Best Fantasy Books and with good reason and it's my pick for the best fantasy series. Martin shattered the fantasy mold and created ... Day Poems : Walt Whitman: Song of Myself To link to this poem put the URL below into your page: a href="daypoems.net/poems/1900.html"Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/a Plain for Printing The Illuminati and The Protocols. - JAH - Home Page [Please 'click here' to go directly to The Protocols section] THE ILLUMINATI AND THE COUNSEL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS By MYRON C. FAGAN (A Transcript) The Illuminati ... Knight Richard - Lehman College ... this lively book unravels the mysteries of architecture by posing ... Controversies series Racism has ... style from the earliest Indian earth lodge 300 AD to ... How Did Yeshua/Jesus Become The Son of God - Ebionite In many of the ancient texts we find the Sadducees and Pharisees becoming outraged when Yeshua called them a scorpion! Why? According to first century tradition it ... Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia This page contains material which is kept because it is considered humorous. Please do not take it seriously. Course Listings The Cooper Union Founded by inventor industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art ...
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