Science’s Revelations

Name three (3) commonalities with complete citations . *In podcast “Science’s Revelations”https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005454c 2.“He is a being with no preternatural qualities, and differs from real living animals only in extreme smallness and agility. He can at pleasure stop, or strike, or push, or pull any single atom of matter, and so moderate its natural course of motion. Endowed ideally with arms and hands and fingers—two hands and ten fingers suffice—he can do as much for atoms as a pianoforte player can do for the keys of the piano—just a little more, he can push or pull each atom in any direction.” What was the imaginary being called, what law did Maxwell use it to explain, and how did he use it? [Note: the description in quotes is not from Maxwell.] 3.Which characters in Wells’s story “The Stolen Bacillus” come in contact with the cholera bacillus and how does their exposure affect the story’s outcome? 4. “And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.” 5.Cobbe’s description of unconscious cerebration asserts “that our brains sometimes think without us” giving examples of dreams, somnambulism, and creative work completed during sleep. He points out that our “dream-selves . . . have no Souls” (425) and that the 2 halves of our minds (conscious/unconscious) are both interdependent and antithetical.Why, then, does he end by reassuring his audience that “whatever be the final conclusions of science regarding our mental nature . . . the Spirit—the Conscious Self of Man—shall return to God who gave it”?              

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