“Earth Science Research: Types and Assumptions”.

          1. Watch the presentation entitled “Earth Science Research: Types and Assumptions”. 2. Choose a current earth science research article from 1 of the following 3 websites. (Do NOT choose 1 article from each link.) http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/earth_climate/geology/ http://www.sci-news.com/news/geology http://geology.com/news (Omit articles by author Hobart King – see Notes #2.) 3. Read the article and write a thread that follows the following outline. State the article title, web address (url), and author(s). Summarize the article’s research method, and findings. Categorize the research as one of the following science types: Mostly historical science Mostly experimental science Mostly predictive science Some combination of 2 or all 3 above Explain why you categorized it as one of the above. Identify any assumptions (unproven statements) in the article and offer your opinion on the validity of those assumptions. Examples would include: old-Earth ages or timelines, rates of geologic processes, evolution, generalizations that are unsupported, etc. If there are no assumptions, describe any implications from the research that may have been ignored or left out.