In What Ways May Disagreement Aid the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Natural and Human Sciences?

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Disagreement happens when two people with opposing opinions discuss a certain topic. When people are younger, they agree with everything. Kids do not have their own opinions. They think that if someone is older than them than what they are saying must be true. Kids look up to authority figures and, in their pure mind, there are no lies. As we get older, we start to realize that not everything we hear or read is something we agree with. We form our own opinions. It is assumed that disagreement gets people nowhere. However, in the pursuit of knowledge, disagreement can be helpful. A disagreement in knowledge leads to new discoveries and helps us obtain new information. Just agreeing with people leads to nothing. Learning is questioning previously believed facts. Questioning knowledge plays a big part in how we learn – particularly in natural science. It used to be widely believed that the Earth was flat. However, the idea came along that the Earth was round. The reason people thought it was crazy to call the Earth round was that they believed ships would sail off the edge of the Earth. Now it is common knowledge that the Earth is not flat. There are new discoveries made in science every day, but along with new discoveries come new questions. When I was five years old, I believed you could breathe in outer space. Shows like Blues Clues did not use adult reasoning, allowing the characters to go into space without helmets, and my mom told me all you need to go into space is a rocket ship. All the reason I needed then was “because my mom said so”. As I got older, I learned there was no oxygen in space and questioned the reliability of Blues Clues. I reasoned through the fact that because there was no oxygen in space, and people need oxygen to breathe, you would not be able to breathe in space. I realized the shows I watched did not use much realism. Disagreeing with
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