QQC Leibniz Reading

Quote: "Leibniz was torn between the contradictory claims of science and philosophy as ways of knowing reality, but he leaned in the direction of science."

Questions: Did anybody else influence Leibniz on his choose? Or did he just randomly choose which one he would like to do?

Comments:

Bryson Reading Chapter 4

Quote:"To begin with, it confirmed that God had wiped out creatures not occasionally but repeatedly. This made Him seem not so much careless as peculiarly hostile. It also made it inconveniently necessary to explain how some species were wiped out while others continued unimpeded into succeeding eons. Clearly there was more to extinctions than could be accounted for by a single Noachian deluge, as the Biblical flood was known. Cuvier resolved the matter to his own satisfaction by suggesting that Genesis applied only to the most recent inundation. God, it appeared, hadn't wished to distract or alarm Moses with news of earlier, irrelevant extinctions."

Questions: How was this fact even found out "that God had wiped out creatures not occasionally but repeatedly." Why is this not published in the bible?

Comments: I really would like to now the reason why this would not be published in the bible, if of course if this fact is real.

QQC #3 Bryson Reading Chapter 4

Quote: "Newton's explained so many things—the slosh and roll of ocean tides, the motions of plants, why cannonballs trace a particular trajectory before thudding back to Earth, why aren't we flung into space as the planet spins beneath us at hundreds of miles an hour*—that it took a while for all their implications to seep in. But one revelation became almost immediately controversial."

Question: How is it possible that the cannonballs now were there going after they get shot? How is it possible that when a plane takes of doesn't land in the wrong place if the world is moving so fast?

Comment: I think that this quote could have been written better, because right now I am still a little confused on this topic. I feel as though if this would have been written better it would make more sense and would make me want to know more about it.

QQC #1: Bryson Reading Intro-Chapter 1

Quote: “Survival on earth is a surprisingly tricky business. Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have excited since the dawn of time, most-99.99 percent-are no longer around.”

Questions: Is there a certain order were the species started to die? Is the are rate that the species are dying? Is there a way to figure out what is the next species to die?

Comment: I chose this quote because it really startled me. It got me thinking if species are 99.99% gone that means pretty much that were next. Because sooner or later the world is going to end, and we are going to be the last little percentage that are alive.

QQC 2# Bryson reading chapter 2-3

Quote:"But the universe is vast and supernovae are normally much too far away to harm us."

Question: Who was the person that discovered a supernovae? How do you detect a supernovae? Were is the supernovae located in the atmosphere?

Comment: I don't know if I should be concerned or OK with this situation, because if are technology is so advanced then how come it took the scientist so long to understand what a supernova was? But then at the same time I will be OK with this because hopefully that means that the scientist were paying attention to other problems we might have, not just the supernova.