Book questions "Magic of reality"
Book questins from the Book "Magic of Reality" from Richard Dawkins
Book questins from the Book "Magic of Reality" from Richard Dawkins
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| Language | English |
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| Level | Secondary School |
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Chapter 10
At what speed do continents move?
He compares it to the growth of a fingernail. It's little for humans, but important for geological time
Chapter 10
What is a plate tectonics?
It's the science of how continents move. There are seven plates that cause movement on the surface of the earth
Chapter 10
What is the modern theory of plate tectonics?
The earth core consists of hot, liquid lava in the form of "honey" on which the plates float
Chapter 10
What is seafloor spreading?
The movement of plates away from each other, submerged under the sea
Chapter 10
What drives the great plates of the earth in various directions?
the heat of the earth core melts lava and leads to movements in the earth crust
Chapter 10
What is subduction?
Two plates collide, one plate moves under the other and pushes the border of the other plate up
Chapter 10
What formed the Himalayan Mountains?
Subductions of indian against eurasian plate
Chapter 11
What is Murphy's Law?
Everything that can go wrong will go wrong
Chapter 11
Why do bad things happen?
Everything happens by chance or according to the laws of science. It's only the human perpective which makes some events "bad". But it's also an illusion as you remember bad events more strongly
Chapter 11
While rejecting Murphys Law, Dawkins believes that something like it's a work how?
There is natural selection, the struggle of survival, so we still have instinctive fears that animals are dangerous, they are trying to "get" us. The world is full of enemies to our survival
Chapter 11
How does Dawkins explain superstitious beliefs?
Superstitious are the result of these fears
Chapter 11
How does Dawkins deal with the topic of illness?
Illnesses are caused vy bacteria and viruses, they need bodies to live and spread. The body has an immune system to fight them. But the immune system can overreact or fail to fight cancerous cells because they are so similar to normal body cells
Chapter 12
What does the story of Feynman's clock illustrate?
There usually is a perfecly normal explanation for what looks like a miracle
Chapter 12
What is Hume's advice when dealing with a supposed miracle?
You should only believe the testimony of a miracle if it were an even greater miracle that the person was lying
Chapter 12
What is Dawkins view on religous and other miracles?
Miracle do not happen. There is always a scientific explanation. We may not have found all explanations, but sciences will constantly broaden its reach and explain things.
Chapter 1
How do we know that things exist?
Five senses
Chapter 1
Apart from our five senses, what other ways are there to find out what things exist(ed)?
Scientific instruments
Chapter 1
Why are telescope like a time machine?
We look at far-away galaxies where the light emitted takes a long time to reach us
Chapter 1
Why are models used in science?
Models describe something complex/abstact part of the scientific procedure:
hypothesis, experiment, proof
Chapter 1
What was Gregor Mendel's achievement?
Laws of heredity
Chapter 1
Which three senses (meanings) of the term "magic" does Dawkins describe?
Which one does he use in his title?
Supernatural magic
poetic magic
stage magic
title: poetic magic
Chapter 1
What does the history of science show?
the scientific process constantly expands what we can explain
Chapter 1
What is illustrated by the example of the pack of cards?
Laws of probability determine all events
Chapter 1
What fundamental question did Darwin answer? And what was his answer?
How do complex organisms come into existence?
Gradual change
Chapter 1
What is Darwin's great idea called in short?
Evolution by natural selection
Chapter 2
How does Dawkins illustrate 185 million generations?
With piles of pictures, a tower of 70'000 m, 180 New York skyscrapers,
Chapter 2
Why is the change from fish to human not easily noted?
Because the changes are so gradual, in tiny steps. Changes only visible when you skip lots of pictures
Chapter 2
What do fossils show? And how are they dated?
Earlier forms of life on the planet, can be dated using the half-life of atomic isotopes
Chapter 2
Why is the concept of evolution hard to understand?
Because is nearly invisible, being so gradual
Chapter 2
what is DNA?
DNA is a genetic information code contained in every living cell
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