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Science-Truth or Story

Submitted by eolecki on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 7:01pm.

The idea of science as a story telling at first seemed a little unsettling and indirect conflict with what we have always been told about science.  Science is the truth, science isproven, and it couldn’t possibly just be a story.  But as we discussed more in-depth the idea of science as awork in progress it started to make more sense.  Science is always evolving, I remember from my sophomoreyear when I took biology to my senior year when I took a.p. biology we weretaught about new discoveries that weren’t known just two years before.  Something that is undisputed truthcan’t change and new discoveries can’t be made.  This is why it makes sense to view science as a story that is constantly evolving.   

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