Passing your science exams might not get you here, but they will help you get a better job, help you understand the world better, and particularly help you understand what our politicians and corporate bosses are up to.
A. Preparation
Study conscientiously over a period of time
Key role—revision—revise systematically:
Revise continuously throughout course
not enough time later
aids future study.
Make a timetable for revision
List revision topics
allocate topics to each day
revise a variety rather than one
don’t omit rest and recreation.
Revise with a friend
a gives better subject balance
can help each other—explanations, tests, etc
reduces anxiety and builds confidence
don’t allow trivial chat—keep purposeful.
Find out what is required
Syllabus—what topics?
Past papers—what questions?
Anything compulsory?
How long for each question?
Practise what is required
Practice recall—creative patterns
Re-organise your ideas—more interesting:
discussions
assemble and revise all notes on a topic together
revise related topics together
criticise your old notes
re-write and write summaries.
Practice answering past papers
Analyse questions over past few years
Assemble related questions together
Write outline plans
creative patterns
convert to linear notes
keep for last minute revision.
discuss answers with colleagues
Don’t depend on predicting questions but be able to answer popular ones.
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According to “The Teleological Argument for God”, Nature is so wonderful, works so well, and is so orderly that it can only have been designed. There must therefore have been a designer, and it must have been God. David Hume pointed out that something appearing to be designed does not necessitate that it has been designed. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution explained why life forms could become very sophisticated and thus seem to have been designed. Moreover, if the designer is God, He has designed a lot of imperfection and cruelty into his plan for Nature. It is not compatible with the assumed nature of the Christian God. The God who designed Nature was not a very intelligent god, and was not a merciful god. What advantage is there in the suffering of millions of animals throughout time? Epicurus said:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is not benevolent. Is He both able and willing? Then whence evil?
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Carl Sagan writes that many pseudoscientific and new age beliefs come from dissatisfaction with conventional values and perspectives and are really a kind of scepticism. Thus David Hess (Science and the New Age) argues that “a large number of sincere people are exploring alternative approaches to questions of personal meaning, spirituality, healing, and paranormal experience in general.” What these sincere people do not realize is that their “alternative approaches” are not new at all — they are seriously old hat. It is science that is new, only 300 years or so old, yet has taught us more in that historically short time than religions and “spirituality” have taught us in the whole of the existence of humanity. Perhaps what they want is science to be put to more beneficial uses instead of to destruction, but that is a social choice, not a scientific one. Science is subject to governmental and corporate decisions, and these are what new age believers, and scientific critics in traditional religions too, ought to be changing. It is too political for pseudo mystics.
Passing your science exams might not get you here, but they will help you get a better job, help you understand the world better, and particularly help you understand what our politicians and corporate bosses are up to.
