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Re: What is Science?

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The scientific method doesn't really require further definition. It is not a set of laws and regulations, but rather basic requirements for conducting experiments and reporting the results via analysis and study. This becomes more or less scientific through peer review and subsequent testing and retesting.
Wow "Basic requirements," are not the same as laws, or regulations???

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As to whether a child excercises science while walking down a stairs - I wouldn't know. The act of walking is not a science unless the child does it as part of a study. But who knows what the child is thinking of? Maybe she is performing some analysis in her head while walking?
You are not confident that analysis is being conducted and that operation of the body movements is not necessarily the result of past experiements designed into an order of new experiement that ultimately results in the child achieving the ability to walk. You believe there is, probably, some other method being employed that would distinguish it from science?
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