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Tighten up intro and explain better what the method is
[[Image:Scisteps.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Flow chart illustrating the steps to the Scientific Method]]
[[Image:Scisteps.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Flow chart illustrating the steps to the Scientific Method]]
The '''scientific method''' is an ideal process which many [[scientist]]s recommend.
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.
[[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.
The goal of the scientific method is to test the validity of a [[hypothesis]]. 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.
[[Hans Storch]] wrote:
[[Hans Storch]] wrote: