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Is it true or false the Scientists accept ideas from the past but will revise them when new evidence is discovered?

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Before 1700 most Western scientists thought the Earth was about 4.6 billion years old?

This statement is incorrect. Before the 1700s, Western scientists generally believed in a young Earth based on religious teachings that dated the world to around 6,000 years old. It wasn't until the late 18th and early 19th centuries that scientific discoveries began to suggest a much older Earth than previously thought.


Why do some scientists say the creation story is made up?

Scientists who contend that the biblical story of creation is false are following the philosophy of naturalism which specifically excludes creation as something which can be considered. This is rather interesting in the light of modern science which developed in an era where people believed in God and so also believed in as a consequence an orderly universe which could be understood and studied. In more recent times some scientists have sought to use the unscientific philosophy of naturalism which explicitly excludes the creator, when science cannot disprove God by any endeavor deemed to be scientific. Other scientists, although certainly in a minority, do not find any conflict whatsoever between the facts of science and creation. These scientists do not regard the creation story as made up. This demonstrates it is a philosophical position which causes people to regard the creatin story as made up. It is also a philosophical statement, not a scientific one to regard certain things as facts which are not at ll proven but which are open to question and debate such as the age of the earth. It is explicitly the alleged age of the earth, which in recent times has had much contrary evidence brought against it, which is open to question by such data but which is used to call into the question the view that the earth was created by God around 6000 years ago.


Her biographer conclusively proves that Hypatia did invent the astrolabe?

There is no conclusive proof that Hypatia invented the astrolabe. It is believed that she made significant contributions to mathematics and astronomy, but the exact origins of the astrolabe are unclear as it existed before her time.


True or False Most of the gases Mercury once had in its atmosphere apparently escaped into space?

True. Scientists believe that Mercury's thin atmosphere is the result of most of its original gases escaping into space due to the planet's low gravity and proximity to the sun.