Anthony's+Week+1

Dr. Terry Halwes spends all the time in the articles discussing all the problems with our current "understanding" of science, and all the methods and facets associated with it. The main point is that science is always changing and that since it is always changing we cannot look at it with one supreme method or an absolute set of beliefs. Science is simply one out of many different ways of thinking humans are able to do to Dr. Halwes, and is neither greater nor lesser than any other way of thinking. “Since science is one of the ways that human beings use for learning about themselves and their world, our scientist would examine what we know about other types of thinking and learning. She would certainly include the learning skills that the philosophers of science were trying to **//exclude//** -- methods of learning that human beings share with other animals, for example, and the development of ordinary ‘common-sense’ knowledge by human beings,” Dr. Halwes writes in //Dispelling Some Common Myths About Science//.

After reading the essays by Dr. Hawles, I feel myself agreeing with most of it. I feel that we don’t currently and never will have an absolute understanding of what exactly science is for the simple fact that it is always changing. It wasn’t that long ago in human history that the Earth was the center of a static and eternal universe. Also, I agree that there is no one perfect way of doing science. Many major discoveries in the history of science are made simply by accident, such as the discovery of radioactive emissions.

Science is always evolving as humans continue to make discovery, either by deep thought, multiple experiments, or a simple mistake. To try to say that science can be done by only one rigid method and that method only, by highly intelligent scientists working in a lab somewhere isolated from the world is a gross over simplification. Dr. Hawles mentions “If you look at the history of science, you'll see that the advancement of knowledge was always a dance between the non-scientists and the scientists who were both interested in some particular aspect of the natural world," in //Dispelling Some Common Myths About Science.// Every day we all par take in some sort of science, math for example to make change when we buy groceries, physics when we try to lift and set down objects, and obviously we’re all not scientists wearing a white lab coat sitting looking down a microscope. To define science is like trying to catch the wind with your hands, its great try, but always impossible.