1. SOME THOUGHTS ON SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY

2. TODAY’S SCIENCE TEACHER FACES A DIFFICULT TASK

3. WE ARE TO TEACH SCIENCE AND ACCOMIDATE DOGMA

4. BUT, THERE ARE OBVIOUS CONFLICTS

5. AS BEST WE CAN, WE WANT TO TEACH TRUTH

6. LET’S LOOK AT HOW SCIENTESTS THINK AND WHAT THEY DO

8. OUR WORKING PREMISES  Understanding the Universe is our job, and it can be understood.  Our toolbox is the scientific method.  Ethics are necessary, but religion is not.  Errors happen.  Truth would be wonderful, but………

9. Understanding the Universe is our job, and it can be understood.

10. Our toolbox is the scientific method

11. Ethics are necessary, but religion is not

12. Errors happen

13. The truth would be wonderful, but………

14. THE TOOLBOX—THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

15. STEPS The problem A hypothesis A theory

16. The problem

17. A hypothesis

18. A theory

19. THREE CLOSING THOUGHTS

20. Galileo Galilei ~1834

21. “I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use” Galileo Galilei, ~1834

22. Carl Sagan ~1985

23. “Ten or twenty billion years ago, something happened – the Big Bang, the event that began our universe. Why it happened is the greatest mystery we know. That it happened is reasonably clear.” Carl Sagan, ~1985

24. Distinguishing between religious and science ideas is difficult. Perhaps one test helps – if a person is absolutely certain, it’s religion.