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NOTES ENGG 481
Wednesday, September 26th 2012
Kelsy Silvaniuk Sarang Kumar Cassidy Nyman Brandon Anstey
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G and A- Room technician is Blair
- Treat him with appreciation and acknowledgement
please
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Law of Periodicity
We are in a changing time and moving into a
new period December 21, 2012 This is an astronomical reality
Mankind will be witnessing some significantchanges in the coming months.
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Important Truths Cont.Deep Truth 3
The key to addressing the crises threateningour survival lies in building partnershipsbased on mutual aid and cooperation to
adapt to the changes, rather than in pointingfingers and assigning blame, which makessuch vital alliances difficult
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Important Truths Cont.Age of civilization
The pyramids and the sphinx; much older than what
people believe
Gobekli Tepe, Turkey ~ 11,500 years old
Gulf of Khambhat, India ~ 9,500 years old
Caral, Peru ~ 6,900 years old
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Important Truths Cont.Traditional/Conventional Thinking
Civilization has evolved once in human history
Civilization has developed in a linear way from less to
more evolved
The history of the world is ~ 5000 years
The oldest civilization is Sumer (~ 3500 years old)
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Important Truths Cont.Revised Thinking
Civilization has developed multiple times in human
history
Civilization has developed in a cyclic way, with each
cycle developing from being less to more evolved
The most recent of the world's civilizations is ~ 5000
years old
The oldest known civilization in the world is Gobekli
Tepe, ~11500 years old
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Important Truths Cont.Deep Truth 4
New discoveries of advanced civilizationsdating to near the end of the last ice ageprovide insights into solving the crises of our
time that our ancestors also faced in theirs
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Important Truths Cont. Greenland:
o Is melting
o Image of puddlesturning into lakes
Normalcy Bias:o Everything will be ok
o Assume that things will return to the way they were
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Important Truths Cont.Human Origins
Biologists generally define life as something that meets
four criteria: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, andreproduction
Life in general, and human life in particular, is onlyknown to result from biological material that is already
living At the Eight-cell stage of Life, a mysterious process that
is still not fully understood awakens the code of life. TheDNA, with the traits that make us who we are and whatwe become, is activated
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Important Truths Cont.Darwin Assumptions
Evolution assumption 1 Life may arise spontaneouslyfrom non-living material
Evolution assumption 2 Nature does not endow a
species beyond what it needs to live
Evolution assumption 3 Existing species may evolveinto entirely new species over time
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Important Truths Cont.Intelligent design
Intelligent Design assumption 1
there is an order inthe Universe
Intelligent Design assumption 2 - The complexities of
living systems can best be explained by Directed, ratherthan random, processes
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Important Truths Cont.Irreducible Complexity
If any portion of a system stops working, the entire systemstops working
EX. a watch
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Important Truths Cont.Deep Truth 5
A growing body of scientific data from multipledisciplines, gathered using new technology,provides evidence beyond reasonable doubt
that humankind reflects a design put in placeat once, rather than a life-form emergingrandomly through an evolutionary processover a long period of time
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Important Truths Cont. See blackboard notes for War Doesn't Work
slide
We Betray our Peaceful Nature When:
We feel personally threatened We feel that our families are threatened
We feel that our way of life is threatened
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Important Truths Cont.Deep Truth 6
A growing body of scientific evidence, gatheredfrom more than 400 peer-reviewed studies, isleading to an undeniable truth: violent
competition and war contradict our deepestinstincts of cooperation and nurturing
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Questions1. What are the four criterion that biologists use to define
life?
A: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli & reproduction
2. What is the oldest known civilization?
A: Gobleki Tepe, 11,500 years old
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Questions3. What is the normalcy bias?
A: Everything will be OK, assuming it will return to how itwas before
4. Define irreducible complexity and give an example.
A: If any portion of a system stops working, the entiresystem will stop working. Ex) a watch
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Questions5. Name 2 of Darwin's 3 assumptions
A: i) life may spontaneously arise from nonliving materialii) nature doesn't endow a species outside what it needs tosurvive
iii) species evolve over time
6. The Sphinx shows evidence of what type of erosion?
A: Water erosion
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Questions7. Name one of the two assumptions of intelligent design
A: i) there is an order in the Universeii) The complexities of living systems can best beexplained by Directed, rather than random, processes
8. Competition is a motivator and helps us to betterourselves in the process of beating the competitor. Trueor False.
A: False
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Questions9. Present day astronomy acknowledges what date in the
very near future does as significant?
A: December 21, 2012
10. What is the name of the room technician whom
provides us tech support?
A: Blair
