Writing Assignment : Science and Nature
1. Write an essay of 4-6 pages in which you explain and compare the role of causalarguments in Rachel Carson's "The Obligation to Endure" and another text from the
"Science and Nature" section of our textbook.
2. Write an essay of 4-6 pages in which you explain the importance of Darwin's
understanding of natural selection for Barry Commoner's "The Four Laws of Ecology"and/or Rachel Carson's "The Obligation to Endure."
3. Write an essay of 4-6 pages in which you use Barry Commoner's four laws of ecology toanalyze one of the following readings: Rachel Carson's "The Obligation to Endure,"Wangari Maathai's "Foresters Without Diplomas," or Vandana Shiva's "Soil, not Oil."
4. Write an essay of 4-6 pages in which you apply Karl Popper's definition of science in"Science as Falsification" to one or two of the other readings in the "Science and Nature"section of our textbook. You will be arguing that the other reading(s) would or would not
be considered scientific in Popper's point