It's Common to Regard Science as the Most Authoritative Form

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Essay

It's common to regard science as the most authoritative form of knowledge and as the royal road to truth about the world.   But when you begin to think more carefully about science, the picture gets more complicated. Write an essay in which you explore what it means to call science a form of knowledge. Your essay should address kinds of truth; the relations between observation, hypotheses, and theory; the theory-dependent nature of some facts; the challenge of understanding how scientific theories can be true in any sense; the strengths and success of science; and the creationism-science debate.

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