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[[File:ScientificMethodflowchart.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Flow chart illustrating the steps to the Scientific Method]]

[[File:ScientificMethodflowchart.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Flow chart illustrating the steps to the Scientific Method]]

The '''scientific method''' is the ideal process by which [[scientist]]s say [[scientific research]] should be conducted. <ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. Exploring Creation With General Science.</ref>  It is a standardized process which involves asking questions, searching for answers, guessing a possible answers called a [[hypothesis]], and then evaluating that hypothesis by [[experiment]]s in a specific, rigid fashion. Most articles in scientific journals are formatted according to its steps.

The '''scientific method''' is the ideal process by which [[scientist]]s say [[scientific research]] should be conducted.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. Exploring Creation With General Science.</ref>  It is a standardized process which involves asking questions, searching for answers, guessing a possible answers called a [[hypothesis]], and then evaluating that hypothesis by [[experiment]]s in a specific, rigid fashion. Most articles in scientific journals are formatted according to its steps.

[[Science]] is an active process where systematic descriptions of reality continue to accumulate as scientists ask questions and use improved experiments and analysis to answer those questions. The goal of the scientific method is to test the validity of a [[hypothesis]] - a proposed description of reality. It is not a set of directions for making original discoveries and it does not set out the means that scientists must use in order for their research to succeed. The whole point is to compare the hypothesis with the [[fact]]s.

[[Science]] is an active process where systematic descriptions of reality continue to accumulate as scientists ask questions and use improved experiments and analysis to answer those questions. The goal of the scientific method is to test the validity of a [[hypothesis]] - a proposed description of reality. It is not a set of directions for making original discoveries and it does not set out the means that scientists must use in order for their research to succeed. The whole point is to compare the hypothesis with the [[fact]]s.

==Steps of the Scientific Method==

==Steps of the Scientific Method==

Although by no means conclusive, the following steps are used by a majority of scientists in their work::<ref> [http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/PHY_LABS/AppendixE/AppendixE.html] </ref>

Although by no means conclusive, the following steps are used by a majority of scientists in their work:<ref>[http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/PHY_LABS/AppendixE/AppendixE.html]</ref>

#Observation of phenomena

#Observation of phenomena

#Formulation of an hypothesis

#Formulation of an hypothesis

== Scientific truth ==

== Scientific truth ==

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up familiar with it.<ref> [[Max Planck]], [http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=072204D How Could the Consensus of Experts Be Wrong? - TCS Daily]</ref>

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up familiar with it.<ref>[[Max Planck]], [http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=072204D How Could the Consensus of Experts Be Wrong? - TCS Daily]</ref>

==Links==

==Links==