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By Philosopher Michael Alan Prestwood

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Flashcards

Is an unconfirmed mathematical framework a proof or a model?

Copernicus.

What process creates elements like carbon and iron?

Stellar nucleosynthesis

Astronomy Quote 
We Are Stardust.

The view that mind or ideas are more fundamental than the material world.

Galileo.

What is a closed universe model?

Finite universe (curved)

Astronomy FAQ 
CMB.

What fallacy supports belief because many others hold it?

Bandwagon fallacy (or appeal to popularity)

Astronomy Quote 
Copernicus.

The common name for the time when Earth was nearly or fully covered in ice.

Snowball Earth (starting about 717 million years ago).

Astronomy Story 
Evolution.
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