Pat Ryder on the Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP): While acknowledging current limitations, science is open ended, and subject to correction and expansion as new theoretical and empirical understanding emerges.Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. These different fields owe each other mutual consideration, while being fully aware of their own areas of action and their limitations. However, a number of components – scientific, social, philosophical, religious, cultural and political – contribute to it. Human understanding of value and purpose are outside of natural science’s scope. When evidence is sufficiently compelling, scientific theories are developed that account for and explain that evidence, and predict the likely structure or process of still unobserved phenomena. Science focuses on (i) observing the natural world and (ii)formulating testable and refutable hypotheses to derive deeper explanations for observable phenomena. Scientific knowledge derives from a mode of inquiry into the nature of the universe that has been successful and of great consequence. We also subscribe to the following statement regarding the nature of science in relation to the teaching of evolution and, more generally, of any field of scientific knowledge :
#Statement about science phenomena code#
Commonalities in the structure of the genetic code of all organisms living today, including humans, clearly indicate their common primordial origin. Since its first appearance on Earth, life has taken many forms, all of which continue to evolve, in ways which palaeontology and the modern biological and biochemical sciences are describing and independently confirming with increasing precision.
In addition to the release of the oxygen that we breathe, the process of photosynthesis is the ultimate source of fixed energy and food upon which human life on the planet depends.
The evolution, soon after, of photosynthetic organisms enabled, from at least 2 billion years ago, the slow transformation of the atmosphere to one containing substantial quantities of oxygen. Life appeared on Earth at least 2.5 billion years ago.Since its formation, the Earth – its geology and its environments – has changed under the effect of numerous physical and chemical forces and continues to do so.In a universe that has evolved towards its present configuration for some 11 to 15 billion years, our Earth formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago.Even if there are still many open questions about the precise details of evolutionary change, scientific evidence has never contradicted these results: We agree that the following evidence-based facts about the origins and evolution of the Earth and of life on this planet have been established by numerous observations and independently derived experimental results from a multitude of scientific disciplines. Knowledge of the natural world in which they live empowers people to meet human needs and protect the planet. We urge decision makers, teachers, and parents to educate all children about the methods and discoveries of science and to foster an understanding of the science of nature. We, the undersigned Academies of Sciences, have learned that in various parts of the world, within science courses taught in certain public systems of education, scientific evidence, data, and testable theories about the origins and evolution of life on Earth are being concealed, denied, or confused with theories not testable by science.
Since the release of the IAP Statement on 21 June 2006 on the Teaching of Evolution, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences have agreed to the text and add their names as signatories.
The statement, signed by over 65 IAP member academies urges parents and teachers to provide children with the facts about the origins and evolution of life on Earth and to foster an understanding of the science of nature. More recently in June 2006, IAP released a statement on "The teaching of evolution".
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