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SEMINAR GUIDE · UNDERGRADUATE · 60 MINUTES

Scientific and historical evidence side by side

Students compare two kinds of evidence attached to one entry and explain why neither can stand in for the other.

BEFORE THE SEMINAR
STEPS
  1. Open the Church Incense entry and find its claims, grouped by evidence class.
  2. Read the scientific claim and its scope: what was measured, on what material, and what was not studied.
  3. Read the historical claim and its scope: what kind of source it is, and the time it describes.
  4. Make a two-column table: what each claim supports, what it does not, and what further source would extend it.
DISCUSSION
WHAT STUDENTS PRODUCE

The two-column table, with one sentence on what a combined study would need.

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