... true"5 we immediately trust it. This is because, over the years, science has achieved many advances made through the scientific method, and these advances have improved our lives dramatically. If the scientific method is used to prove a theory to be true, then where do the ideas that formulate the theory originate from? When we see something that we do not understand, it sparks our curiosity forcing us to ask questions to satisfy it. For example, people in the 1600 believed that maggots formed naturally from rotting meat. Because flies commonly laid their eggs on rotten meat and maggots were found to commonly hatch on the meat, it was automatically assumed that the meat gave birth to the maggots. Redi, an Italian physician, disagreed with this theory and set out to prove this theory inaccurate. He performed an experiment in which he put rotting meat in three jars. One was ...

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