Friday, September 28, 2007

Robespierre and the Reign of Terror


The Reign of Terror that occurred during the French Revolution, lasted from 1893 through 1894. Maximilien Robespierre ruled France during that time and controlled that government as if he was a dictator. He executed the French people by cutting their heads off, and this started to make the French people scared. What they all thought is that they could be next, and they want to put an end to this.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The French Revolution: Social Causes


The French Revolution lasted from 1789 to 1799. What caused the French Revolution was that the French people were complaining that they are paying too many taxes, and also the bread prices were high. All of these situations caused the French people to starve

Monday, September 10, 2007

Scientific Revolution: Scientific Method


The Scientific Revolution was used before 1500, and the ideas of science were mostly from the ancient Greeks, and Romans. Others look for their answers by finding it in the Bible. The problem with this method is that they find the answer to their theory, but sometimes the answer is not true. If scientists can't find the answer to their theory, they would have to do the experiment themselves. This was how the Scientific Method began, the experiment was tested a few more times until they find their own conclusion.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Evolution vs Creation

Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution is an organism that has descended from a common ancestor. He came up with a mechanism called "natural selection". Natural selection preserves and accumulates genetic mutations, and are used by human breeders. The Theory of Evolution is a slow process and have different steps that are to be followed. The Theory has been in a crisis for the past 50 years. There are like tens of thousands of irreductebly complex systems, and it perevades the biological world.

Creationism is the belief that the world was created by a God of religious beliefs. The term comes from the belief described in the book of Genesis. Scientists have been trying to figure out how the Earth was made and the age. According to a poll, most Americans believe that it was God that created the Earth. Another poll said that humans existed in years before, and God wasn't part of that.