Science Through the Eyes of a Wolverine

OK, time to move away from the question of the last two weeks. Thank you for all teachers that responded and gave us your opinions. So, here we go with this week…

Question #1…Blaise Pascal was a French philospher who came up with an proposition called Pascal’s wager. Find a site other than Wikipedia and summarize Pascal’s wager in your own words. No copying and pasting allowed.

Then explain whether you believe Pascal’s wager is appropriate to apply to our belief in God–if we follow Pascal’s wager are we truly beliving in God?

Does it work better for global warming and its implications assuming GW cannot be proven?

Can it be used equally for both or is it better applied to one vs the other.

Question 2…Define electrolysis–in the chemistry sense–not in hair removal.

OK, time to move away from the question of the last two weeks. Thank you for all teachers that responded and gave us your opinions. So, here we go with this week…

Question #1…Blaise Pascal was a French philospher who came up with an proposition called Pascal’s wager. Find a site other than Wikipedia and summarize Pascal’s wager in your own words. No copying and pasting allowed.

Then explain whether you believe Pascal’s wager is appropriate to apply to our belief in God–if we follow Pascal’s wager are we truly beliving in God?

Does it work better for global warming and its implications assuming GW cannot be proven?

Can it be used equally for both or is it better applied to one vs the other.

Question 2…Define electrolysis–in the chemistry sense–not in hair removal.

OK, time to move away from the question of the last two weeks. Thank you for all teachers that responded and gave us your opinions. So, here we go with this week…

Question #1…Blaise Pascal was a French philospher who came up with an proposition called Pascal’s wager. Find a site other than Wikipedia and summarize Pascal’s wager in your own words. No copying and pasting here.

Then explain whether you believe Pascal’s wager is appropriate to apply to our belief in God–if we follow Pascal’s wager are we truly beliving in God?

Does it work better for global warming and its implications assuming GW cannot be proven?

Can it be used equally for both or is it better applied to one vs the other.

Question 2…Define electrolysis–in the chemistry sense–not in hair removal.

Review (Click Me )

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You may also leave a Q and I will answer it as soon as I can.

—On a warm and sunny day in Philadelphia you start your new job for a chemical research company. Your boss is kind of a jerk, but the pay is good and the benefits are better. As you were gazing out the window in a dream world, Dr. Smith comes up and asks you to carry out your first experiment. It calls for a reaction with 100.0mL of 2.0M silver nitrate and 85mL of 3.10M HCl. He points to a table full of chemicals and grunts—you assume he means to use these chemicals. So you do. There is a bottle of 12.0M HCl and a jar of AgNO3 solid crystals.

1.How would you prepare each solution (AgNO3 and HCl)

2.What is the balanced equation?

3.What is the net ionic equation?

4.How much solid product would be made in this reaction?

 Here they are!

Question #1

OK, here we go again. I think that many of you missed the point of last week’s question. It makes me feel good to know that so many of you believe in God regardless of what others may think or say. Many of you even tried to prove His existence. This, however, was not the question. The question is basically this…

Let us assume that God does exist–not that we have to prove that He does–He already exists. If this is true, does it matter whether a person believes He exists? Will He still exist even if Billy Bob or Mohinder has never heard of Him? Does it matter if they are atheists? Does their belief change the fact that He exists? Can God exist only for those who believe in Him or does He always exist–if we already assumed that He exists?

Don’t try to convince me that He does. I liked all your responses of how you tried to prove His existence, but right now, we already are assuming that He does.

The other side…

If there is no God, does it matter how much I believe that He exists? Does my belief in God make Him exist? Again don’t tell me the Religion answer. Tell me what your answer to this question is.

This brings us to the 2nd part of the question…

If pollution or global warming or the misuse of technology exists, does it matter if I believe it? Don’t give me your opinion on these categories–you are just giving me your position. That is not the question. Let us assume that global warming exists. Does it matter that I think that global warming is a hoax? Does it matter that the reports I read tell me that GW is silly. If it really is true, does my opinion change this?

Also, let us say that GW is not real. Does it matter that I firmly believe that GW is happening at an alarming rate. If it really isn’t happening, does my opinion change this?

Next part…

Can both opinions be right? Can you ask two people whether or not God exists, get two opposite views, and both be right? Can a person believe in something very strongly and be wrong–or–is truth based on how strongly you believe in something? Ask yourself the same for environmental issues. Can two opposing views both be correct?

Finally…

Restate Acts 1:8. How does this commission apply to the questions above? Or doesn’t it? Why or why not?

Question 2:

What is fractional crystallization? 

Question #1

OK, here we go again. I think that many of you missed the point of last week’s question. It makes me feel good to know that so many of you believe in God regardless of what others may think or say. Many of you even tried to prove His existence. This, however, was not the question. The question is basically this…

Let us assume that God does exist–not that we have to prove that He does–He already exists. If this is true, does it matter whether a person believes He exists? Will He still exist even if Billy Bob or Mohinder has never heard of Him? Does it matter if they are atheists? Does their belief change the fact that He exists? Can God exist only for those who believe in Him or does He always exist–if we already assumed that He exists?

Don’t try to convince me that He does. I liked all your responses of how you tried to prove His existence, but right now, we already are assuming that He does.

The other side…

If there is no God, does it matter how much I believe that He exists? Does my belief in God make Him exist? Again don’t tell me the Religion answer. Tell me what your answer to this question is.

This brings us to the 2nd part of the question…

If pollution or global warming or the misuse of technology exists, does it matter if I believe it? Don’t give me your opinion on these categories–you are just giving me your position. That is not the question. Let us assume that global warming exists. Does it matter that I think that global warming is a hoax? Does it matter that the reports I read tell me that GW is silly. If it really is true, does my opinion change this?

Also, let us say that GW is not real. Does it matter that I firmly believe that GW is happening at an alarming rate. If it really isn’t happening, does my opinion change this?

Next part…

Can both opinions be right? Can you ask two people whether or not God exists, get two opposite views, and both be right? Can a person believe in something very strongly and be wrong–or–is truth based on how strongly you believe in something? Ask yourself the same for environmental issues. Can two opposing views both be correct?

Finally…

Restate Acts 1:8. How does this commission apply to the questions above? Or doesn’t it? Why or why not?

Question 2:

What is fractional crystallization? 

Question #1

OK, here we go again. I think that many of you missed the point of last week’s question. It makes me feel good to know that so many of you believe in God regardless of what others may think or say. Many of you even tried to prove His existence. This, however, was not the question. The question is basically this…

Let us assume that God does exist–not that we have to prove that He does–He already exists. If this is true, does it matter whether a person believes He exists? Will He still exist even if Billy Bob or Mohinder has never heard of Him? Does it matter if they are atheists? Does their belief change the fact that He exists? Can God exist only for those who believe in Him or does He always exist–if we already assumed that He exists?

Don’t try to convince me that He does. I liked all your responses of how you tried to prove His existence, but right now, we already are assuming that He does.

The other side…

If there is no God, does it matter how much I believe that He exists? Does my belief in God make Him exist? Again don’t tell me the Religion answer. Tell me what your answer to this question is.

This brings us to the 2nd part of the question…

If pollution or global warming or the misuse of technology exists, does it matter if I believe it? Don’t give me your opinion on these categories–you are just giving me your position. That is not the question. Let us assume that global warming exists. Does it matter that I think that global warming is a hoax? Does it matter that the reports I read tell me that GW is silly. If it really is true, does my opinion change this?

Also, let us say that GW is not real. Does it matter that I firmly believe that GW is happening at an alarming rate. If it really isn’t happening, does my opinion change this?

Next part…

Can both opinions be right? Can you ask two people whether or not God exists, get two opposite views, and both be right? Can a person believe in something very strongly and be wrong–or–is truth based on how strongly you believe in something? Ask yourself the same for environmental issues. Can two opposing views both be correct?

Finally…

Restate Acts 1:8. How does this commission apply to the questions above? Or doesn’t it? Why or why not?

Question 2:

What is fractional crystallization? 

Question 1 

OK, this week’s question gets a little real. You may not answer this question with a couple sentences of what you think I want to hear. Remember, you don’t even know what that is. I am purposely not giving you a lot of what I think so that you can think for yourselves. You will not be marked down for any opinion that disagrees with whatever I believe. What I want is your thoughts—not mine given back to me. I already know what I think. And believe me, it is pretty spectacularJ

Think about this…

If God exists and a man (woman) does not believe that He exists or does not feel they have enough information to believe He exists, or have never heard of Him; does God still exist?

On to another notion…

If there is a problem with world pollution and misuse of technology, but a man (woman) never hears about this, doesn’t want to believe it or doesn’t have enough facts to believe it is true, is it still true?

Can these statements be both true and false? Or is it one or the other?

What is the role of the person that knows that the answer is “yes” to these questions? Or that the answer is “no” to these questions? What are they to do? Keep it to themselves?

If they should not keep it to themselves, what should they be doing? If the answer for you is that you believe the answer to either of these questions is “Yes” or “No”, what are you doing?

Can we apply Acts 1:8 to each of these first two statements? How?

Question 2:

Look at last week’s question #2 for this one.