This PowerPoint slideshow will address topics you may not like.

• My purpose is to provoke you to think.

• For you to form ideas from what you think.

Types of questions.

1. Do you have a favorable opinion of Mr. Biden our VP?

2. But, Regardless of what you think, Is he doing a good/bad job?

Do you have a favorable opinion of Mr. Biden our VP?

• Why?

• 18% of people polled did have a favorable opinion.

•Does that mean 82% of people don’t have a favorable opinion of him? No

The questions:

Which one do you have a favorable opinion of?

Elvis, Joe Biden, Paris Hilton, Barack Obama, George Bush, Mother Teresa

Do you have a favorable opinion of Joe Biden?

Does this mean he did not do a good job?

• How many of those 18% of poled people would say he is/is not doing a good job?

• Is this question different than the one before involving opinions?

Regardless of what you think, did he do a good/bad job?

• What’s the answer to this question?

• How is this question different from the last two?

•Can you set what you believe aside and find the true answer to the above question?

Should you believe everything Mr. Penner says?

Why or Why not?

Let’s try

• I’m allergic to Labs but love them so I’ll take a lab and breed it with a poodle (non-allergenic) to get a dog that doesn’t make me allergic to it.

• Do you believe me?

• A lab was bread with a poodle.

• Poodles don’t have dander so people allergic to dogs can have poodles, labradoodles, snowzers.

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Try another

• A piece of paper and a book will drop at the same rate and land on the floor at the same time.

• Do you believe me?

Another?

• Trees are alive.

• Do you believe me?

• They posses all the requirements of Life:

• They: have organization, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction.

• Wow, that’s amazing.

Humans are Animals.• Yes, we posses all the characteristics that

are required to be animals.

• But, most animals are NOT humans.• We are more closely related to apes than

cows.• We are more closely related to cows than

starfish.• We are more closely related to starfish

than to trees.

Another• The Antarctic is one of the driest places on

Earth.

• Do you believe me?

• About 100 mm of precipitation (snow, rain) per year.

• That’s about 4 inches.

Another

• UFO’s dart across the sky, changing direction at speed.

• To turn w/in 10th of second at 90 degree angle requires about 10,000 G’s.

• What would 10,000 G’s do to the “aliens”?

ZOOM

Ahh, splat

• 1 G is the force of gravity.• 2 G’s would feel like you have 2 of you

pushing down on you.• 3-4 G’s are what fighter pilots frequently

encounter.• 5 G’s your blood cannot be pumped

around and the fighter pilot blacks out from lack of blood being pushed away from brain.

• 10,000 G’s would smash you and an alien into bits on the side of the craft.

• A plane could be build to withstand it though. It would be one solid piece of metal.

• The power to accelerate that corner doesn’t exist for us.

Lets say a UFO follows similar laws of nature we must follow.

UFO

• What does it stand for?

• Unidentified Flying Object

• UNIDENTIFIED

• UNIDENTIFIED

• UNIDENTIFIED

• UNIDENTIFIED

• UNIDENTIFIED

• A true ALIEN ship should follow the same rules of nature our ships do.

• So If I see a light flashing around the sky at extreme speeds and taking extreme corners, I won’t think it’s an alien ship.

• If I see something behaving “normal” I am more likely to think about the possibility.

• But, in that case I’d think it was a plane or etc.

Back to incredible things.

• How do we know the world is round?– Shadow differences– View it from space– Go around it.

Sun

Light

We observe, guess, test.

• We have all kinds of ideas.

• We test all these ideas and get rid of the ones that don’t work.

• The left over ideas May have some truth to them.

• This is Science.

• The great tragedy of science - - -

–The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis.

By an ugly fact.-Thomas

Huxley

• A fact that shows a guess is not accurate forces one to re-evaluate what they thought was true.

• What is a belief you had that a fact showed was not true so you had to change your mind?

• Three times four ARE 13.

• OR

• Three times four IS 13.

• Three times four is

12Just joking with you.

Why do a select few religions or people have problems with

some or all of Science?

• Most people, Most religions, Most Scientists practice both concepts:

– Beliefs and Scientific Method.

• The human condition has lived with both for centuries.

• In fact, Science was practiced in the church/etc to help understand the natural world. The church/etc provided time for people to study and experiment.

Three ways of thinking.

• 1. You just believe it and need no data.Religions, Faith, Love, . . .

• 2. Open minded: form beliefs around evidence you see.

Science

•3. Close minded: have a belief then search for supporting evidence.

Aliens, Sasquatch, Jackalope . .

• Can you set aside your beliefs, look at what’s

around you, then come up with ideas from that

information.