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Study the five diagrams to the left. Discuss five pieces of evidence needed to reach the conclusions that Wagner reached in his continental drift theory. These pieces of scientific evidence should be different than the most apparent "jigsaw puzzle" fit of the continents as seen in the present day view of the world.
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period,' just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Discuss the appearent fallicies in Mark Twains arguement in reaching the conclusions that he reached in the poem above, which is from "Life on the Mississippi" ? Also discuss the pieces of evidence he needed to have had to reach his conclusions.
Discuss the appearent fallicies in Mark Twains arguement in reaching the conclusions that he reached in the poem above, which is from "Life on the Mississippi" ? Also discuss the pieces of evidence he needed to have had to reach his conclusions.
The Scientific Method is best defined as a method of solving problems systematic. a pattern of self assessment and self regulation. an untested and unproven method to find something out. none of the above all of the above
a method of solving problems systematic.
a pattern of self assessment and self regulation.
an untested and unproven method to find something out.
none of the above
all of the above
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