Which factor are natural scientists focusing on when they ask "Why?"  questions?

(a) Causal relationships
(b) Personal motivations
(c) Evolutionary goals
(d) Vested economic interests
(e) Divine purposes


a

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A critique of the view of human nature as social with positive potentialities would be:

a. “Benign aggression” is biologically adaptive and instinctive in animals and people. b. Culture exists for people, not people for culture; we will more and more “make culture” as active, reflective agents rather than be made by it as empty, reactive puppets. c. Some social scientists have observed that when external and internal restrictions are removed and a person feels free to move in any direction, the person moves toward “full functioning.” d. Human greed and violence of the regimes that followed the French and Russian revolutions equated or exceeded that of the old regimes they replaced.

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When using the hypothetical-deductive pattern of reasoning, a scientist is trying to ______ a hypothesis

A. form B. prove C. disprove D. express

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Nietzsche held that modernity was

a. the way forward b. an illusion c. a sickness d. a sign of health

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A miracle is, by definition, nothing more than a surprising or unusual event.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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