The instructor was wrong in correcting the following answers: 1. William Herschel theory of life on the sun was motivated by which one of the following? The student answered, “By his observations of sunspots.” The instructor has crossed it as wrong. According to a peer-reviewed article, written by Kawaler, S. and Veverka, J. (1981) and published in Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 75, Hershel’s observations of sunspots have led him to believe that they [i.e., the sunspots] “were holes in the outer luminous layers of the sun, through which we glimpse a dark, cold solid interior” (p. 50). This observational premise has led him to determine that “the sun viewed in this light appears to be nothing else …show more content…
. . Russell, C. (2016). Detection of local H2O exposed at the surface of Ceres. Science (New York, N.Y.), 353(6303), N/a. Neveu, M., & Desch, S. (2015). Geochemistry, thermal evolution, and cryovolcanism on Ceres with a muddy ice mantle. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(23), 10,197-10, 206. Porco, C., Baker, E., Barbara, J., Beurle, K., Brahic, A., Burns, J . . . West, R. (2005). Imaging of Titan from the Cassini spacecraft. Nature, 434(7030), 159-68. 2. Define what teleology is, and give an example of its use in the context of the extraterrestrial life debate (2 marks) The student’s answer: Teleology is defined as providing evidence to prove the existence of something such as living beings. Teleology can be used against the idea of life beyond our planet because there is no proof/evidence of any other life forms existing in our universe. …show more content…
45). Hence, the student has correctly answered the question about the principle of plenitude. The marking schema states that the “Great Chain of being is the idea that everything existing in the universe has its place in the divine order.” The student wrote that the principle describes “everything existing in our universe” based on their spiritual size and categorization (i.e., its place). This is true as the grading schema indicates that “the placement in this chain depends on the relative proportion of spirit..” The grading schema further states that “based on the principle of plenitude, some earth Christian scholars argued that God created many creatures not just human beings and have placed these extraterrestrials on stars and planets all of the universe.” Hence, the student argued the same that the Christian scholars used this to further their argument of ETI existing, which is correct. The student has logically answered the
The rocks do not show signs of heavy weathering. There is some white staining visible, but there is very little red or brown staining. The rocks have abundant vesicles. There is a mix of rocks with varying sizes and numbers of vesicles. Samples collected were representative of this mix.
This was a contemporary thought of the time about God and HIS active involvement in life. P2. The biblical age of the Earth does not support Darwin's evolutionary theory.
On the teleological argument, McCloskey’s claim that “to get the proof going, genuine indisputable examples of design and purpose are needed” is not reasonable. Why does one side of the equation need examples and the other does not, is not a fair assessment of a problem. There should always be examples to prove that each side is disputable or undisputable for the premise. A person can assume that a statement is true but that does not make the argument true and in all fairness why would that argument be considered true without some type of proof. The teleological argument is to show probability of theism, exhibit purpose of order, design and infer that the cause must be an intelligent
Kortenkamp, Steve, and WK Hartmann. “Impact at Cumberland Gap: Where Natural and National History Collide.” Planetary Science Institute, https://www.psi.edu/sites/default/files/newsletter/summer04/Summer04.pdf. Accessed 6 December 2022.
The Teleological Argument The Teleological Argument tries to prove the existence of a deity from the order of nature found around, and is often called the design argument. The term teleological comes from the Greek words telos and logos. Telos means the goal or end or purpose of a thing while logos means the study of the nature of a thing. The suffix ology or the study of is also from the noun logos or logy which means communications of divine origin. In this argument the main point often debated the attempt to prove the existence of God that begins with the observation of the telos of nature.
Evidence and theories shows that the production of life is incredibly delicate, lucky, unlikely, and rare. But to counter that argument, there is also the fact that there are billions of planets in a single galaxy, and billions of galaxies in the known universe, so the likeliness of life starting on another planet isn’t ruled out. 3. List and define some of the scientific evidence and scientific principles Sacks mentions in his essay.
Dr Hendry quickly disbands this argument by saying that the Sun doesn’t always cast parallel
Today virtually every child grows up learning that the Earth orbits the Sun, but four centuries ago the heliocentric solar system, where the Earth orbits the Sun, was so controversial that the Catholic Church classified it as a crime of heresy (UCLA). In the age of early philosophy, Socrates’ is well known. Between the Socratic method and his line of successful students, Socrates’ makes the history books. Galileo Galilei turned astronomers on their heads when he discovered moons around Jupiter. Giordano Bruno didn’t back down from any of his brilliant and different ideas.
The notion of teleology has been a subject of much debate in regards to contemporary biology concerns. Among these arguments, is whether or not design and/or teleology has a place in contemporary religious thought and if the thought process is possible of being sustained in the light of modern scientific developments. The following paper will discuss these arguments as well as the implications of Anthropic cosmology and Neo-Darwinism biology. Additionally, this paper will take and defend a position and answer counter-arguments.
The current rings are more than 90 to 95 per cent water ice, which implies that initially they were almost pure ice because they are continually polluted by rocky
We propose to strengthen and improve under greenhouse conditions Cenomanian Turonian deposition conditions at these
Teleology basically endorses that the ends satisfy the means. If it happened then by nature, it was meant to happen.
Dr Andre Bieler of the University of Michigan, another scientist working on this research, said 'it will need a significant amount of work' to make this finding fit in with models of how the solar system evolved. The discovery is reported by Altwegg, Bieler and colleagues in the scientific journal Nature today (Wednesday 28 October
The second theory that supports ancient aliens had an impact on Earth is ancient hieroglyphics (Burns
The following are the premises to this argument. Initially, if there are are conditions for life to exist and evolve, it will. Biochemistry supports this premise, but it is still somewhat debatable. Additionally, there are many environments where life is capable of living and evolving. This suggests that different types of life could survive in other conditions contrary to Earth and on other planets.