When you are provided with information
about alternative views on the origin
of life on Earth, or the evolutionary
process you should be able to:
- identify statements which are data
and statements which are an explanation;
- recognise data or observations that
are accounted for by (or conflict with)
an explanation;
- identify imagination and creativity
in the development of an explanation;
- justify accepting or rejecting a
proposed explanation on the grounds
that it:
- accounts for observations;
- provides an explanation that links
things previously thought to be unrelated;
- identify a scientific question for
which there is not yet an agreed answer
and suggest a reason why;
- suggest plausible reasons why scientists
involved in a scientific event or issue
disagree;
suggest reasons for scientists’ reluctance
to give up an accepted explanation when
new data appear to conflict with it.