The diagrams below show the break-up of the super continent Pangaea (meaning "all lands" in Greek), which figured prominently in the theory of continental drift -- the forerunner to the theory of plate tectonics. ... The theory of continental drift would become the spark that ignited a new way of viewing the Earth. ... However, after his death, new evidence from ocean floor exploration and other studies rekindled interest in Wegener's theory, ultimately leading to the development of the theory of plate tectonics. ... Even though the theory of plate tectonics is now widely accepted by th...

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These experiments support another hypothesis that RNA, rather than DNA, functioned as life's first information storage system. ... In this way, over thousands of years, RNA, DNA, and proteins could have evolved into the complex system that characterizes life today. ... His theory states that all species evolved from a few common ancestors by natural selection. ... But Darwin's theory was better developed and more famous. ... All that evidence is what supported Darwin's theory about natural selection. ...

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- Science has many different theories on it. One of these is the Gaia Theory created by James Lovelock. ... We will begin with the question, "What is the Gaia Theory?... This particular religion sprang right off of the Gaia Theory. Gaianism is a set of ideas, open to modification and interpretation, based around the idea that the Earth behaves as a homoeostatic system with life integral to it. ...

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Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is the second largest of nine planets and one of the most interesting in our Solar System. ... Saturn is one of the most beautiful sites in our Solar System with its spectacular ring system. ... This magnetic field is larger than Earth's but smaller than that of Jupiter's, and it is five times as weak predicted by theory. ... Astronomers have been puzzled since the discovery and they have only increased since Voyagers 1 and 2 imaged the ring system, and in addition to the images, several Voyager instruments observed occultation's of the ...

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While some of the theories proposed discussed this semester by various philosophers were slightly difficult to fully understand, several readings in the textbook were given in which supported the topic that there is a God who exists: First was "the ontological argument" by Saint Anselm of Canterbury, a Christian philosopher. ... " This is why I don't believe theories like the big bang theory can be true; something would have needed to precede the "big bang" causing it to occur. ...

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