Scientific Claims or Traditional Beliefs
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Scientific Claims or Traditional BeliefsAn investigation of what constitutes a scientific knowledge claim and whether such claims can be differentiated from other sorts of claims.
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Directions• Consider each claim…
– Suggest how each claim could have come into existence
– What sorts of thinking processes and types of reasoning might have been involved?
• Compare your answers for the different claims– Are there aspects of the thinking processes
involved which are common to most or all of them.– If so, what are they?
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During the first seven days after birth, it is dangerous to expose a child to the outdoors or to strangers.
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When a man and a woman both have sickle cell anemia, it is dangerous for them to have children.
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Singing while bathing is dangerous.
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Bringing bundles of firewood from the farm into the village is dangerous.
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Smoking Cigarettes is Dangerous
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Cutting a tree in the forest without performing certain rites is dangerous.
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Fishing on Tuesdays is Dangerous
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A live, non-insulated electric wire is dangerous to touch.
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Pounding fufu after dark is dangerous
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Driving after drinking alcohol is dangerous.
Let’s go for a drive…!
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Scientific Claims or Traditional BeliefsSimilarities:
• Repeated observation
• Generalization
• Inspired ideas
• Prediction
• Explanation
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• Which of the claims do you regard as being scientific? Justify your answer. – Do you have a single criterion for distinguishing the
scientific from the non-scientific?
• Why do non-scientific beliefs persist in groups of people familiar with scientific explanation?
• Explanations for taboos are often given in supernatural terms. Is it possible to reconcile natural and supernatural explanations?
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“Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.”
TH Huxley