Is evolution "History"?

Bibi Tyron: In English, it is called "the Moon." With the article "the" and a capital "M." All astronomers and astronomy books call it that. "Luna" is just the Latin name for the Moon, and is only used by science fiction writers, not scientists.[Edit] The Moon is _a_ satellite of the Earth, but so are thousands of other objects. The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. No space shuttle ever went to the Moon; they were only capable of low orbit, a few hundred kilometres above Earth at most. The Moon is much larger and much farther away. It takes very special spaceships to go to the Moon, the Apollo craft.The Moon is special because we've known about it throughout human history. The moons of other planets were only discovered in the last 400 years since the invention of the telescope. There is only one Moon, with a capital "M."...Show more

Benita Nancy: it goes into the science catagory because we don't know anything about it. history is the study of what we k! now....studing RECORDED history. where as the formation of the galaxy and universe is still all guess work, and thats what science is about

Herma Ellebrecht: This is a repeat question... And don't say it's to early to tell, if NASA and JPL can plot trajectory they must know mass

Sena Highman: Luna is the moons name in Latin but people generally just call it the Moon which I think is its proper name

Benny Stehno: to demonstrate that it is "tidally locked" with you, then because the ball can be said to have spin around it's axis, what does that make you and the string? besides stupid looking.

Lilli Kochel: I have balls tied to a string,I call it fun :)

Cierra Gadbaw: If you mean historical, as in it happened, than yes evolution is history since it actually did take place. However, I think in this case the definition would be "pre-history" since we don't actually have written or oral sources from the time of our pre-human ancestors. Pre-history! means anything that happened before our earliest documentatio! n. Also, for the evolution that is still happening, it would be science because it is part of how the natural world works.

Coleman Coscia: History generally refers to human history. Evolution is still happening, and is part of biology & science.

Dallas Bartolini: History, as in prehistory, before recorded history, archeology, is human history. Evolution is the way things work now - including breeding cats, dogs, cows, and horses.

Arlen Hamper: It definitely is history, especially when the date of fossil evidence is pinned down by geological clock or atomic dating methods.History always involves chronology.However, the majority of earth's people are not interested in evolutionary, nor geological, history.They are much more interested in the history of people on earth.Therefore the latter becomes the primary definition of history, the ordinary meaning of the term.Science ventures into evolutionary history. Occasionally scientific methods are used for the s! tudy of ordinary history.The term history can be applied widely in conjunction with limiting adjectives:Stellar historyCrocodile historyTelevison historyPeruvian historyor History of TanksHistory of Sun Spot ObservationThe term is not limited to people with degrees in history....Show more

Somer Distilo: I would say, have some nuts, and accept it as history. The study of this type of history is also science. Evolution has a history....

Bianca Lannier: more pigeonholes againevolution is historyhistory is scienceevolution is science

Piedad Bassiti: You have to keep the force constant to make it spin at same axis. This is gravity pull. When you stop applying force, it stops and fall down, it's not called falling down. It's Earth's gravity pull. The force of your hand maintains the ball, the force of Earth maintains the Moon.

Tatiana Evanosky: "New United States of America"

Norma Marsalis: The Theory of Evolution has had a very significant historica! l impact over the last century and a half. The misuse of this informat! ion led to some very bad social and political trends. The proper use of the information has opened up whole new fields of biology and has expanded our understanding of life as much or more than any other scientific discovery.While the study of biological evolution is a scientific endeavor, not primarily under the topic of social history, there is a whole huge field of understanding called natural history. You've probably heard that term before as the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History has been one of the most popular places to visit in Washington for many decades.Just a caution. When you see people making comments like Matthew's, above, you can be sure they are religious fundies. When it comes to science and what it does or what it has achieved, these people make extremely poor resources. Their antagonism toward science is rooted in their unwavering belief in the absolute literal truth of the bible. That is what they consider historically accurate, and when scient! ific investigation reveals the bible's ancient authors to be breathtakingly mistaken, the fundamentalists get quite belligerent. What we find in the fossil record and in DNA is many, many orders of magnitude more reliable than the best guesses of ancient scholars.As for how this relates to astronomy, we have learned a great deal about the evolution of the universe, stars, planets, and life. We can't see many of the slow astronomical processes taking place all the way through, but we have essentially billions of snapshots of stars in varying degrees of evolution. Enough data gives confidence to the conclusions. For example, we can know the distance to a star without going there. We can know the past and the future of the sun without having to watch for 10 billion years. Etc....Show more

Bernadette Roel: I know that the moons from other planets have names but what about our moon? Is it called "Satellite"? I think that's what it is because most space shuttle launc! hes go to the Satellite, so I guess that is referring to the moon right! ?

Irma Poiter: Evolution (in the biological sense) continues on a daily basis.On a grander scale (formation of galaxies and such) everything changes. That's evolution at work yet again.

Ervin Overbee: We nerds don't need reasons beyond "stupid looking" to do what we do oh so well. Don't be a hater.

Azalee Ahrendes: The "Moon" is the name of Earth's natural satellite.The English use of the word “Moon” was derived from moone around 1380. It developed from mone (1135), which derives from Old English mōna (dating from before 725), which ultimately stems from Proto-Germanic mÇ£nōn.For most of history, our Moon was the only one of its kind known to man. Like the Sun, it was considered to be unique.After the telescope was invented, it was found that other planets also had bodies in the same type of configuration â€" in orbit around the planet. For lack of a better name, these bodies were also called moons, but as a description. In the English language, “M! oon” is capitalized when used as its name. When used as a description it is not capitalized. Notice that in the sources below.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite...Show more

Rocio Karvis: Moon English maan Afrikaans قَمَر Arabic Луна Bulgarian lua Portuguese (BR) mÄ›síc Czech der Mond German mÃ¥ne Danish φεγγάρι Greek luna Spanish kuu Estonian ماه Farsi kuu Finnish lune French יָרֵח Hebrew चन्द्रमा Hindi Mjesec Croati! an hold Hungarian bulan ! Indonesian tungl, máni Icelandic luna Italian 月 Japanese 달 Korean mÄ—nulis Lithuanian mÄ"ness Latvian bulan Malay maan Dutch mÃ¥ne Norwegian księżyc Polish ماه Persianسپوژمى Pashto lua Portuguese lună Romanian луна Russian mesiac Slovak Mesec Slovenian mesec Serbian mÃ¥ne Swedish แสงจันทร์ Thai Ay Turkish 月亮 Chinese (Trad.) місяць; Місяць Ukrainian چاند Urdu mặt tră! ng Vietnamese 月亮 Chinese (Simp.)...Show more

Babette Deloe: Strictly speaking no. While it does deal with the past, History is limited to the story of mankind as it has been written down. Before the invention of writing there is no true history. Lots of facts have been collected but they fall into "prehistory", athropology, or other categories. In some cases evolution is history: just not human evolution. Plant and Animal breeding which is forced evolution has been studiously recorded. The evolution of microbes also has a great deal to do with human history. Much to our sorrow....Show more

Hunter Osterberger: You would be the earth and the string would be the gravitational attraction between the earth and moon.

Lou Ravelo: Is chemistry 'history'?The manner in which our understanding of chemistry changes with time can be studied using the tools of history. However, chemistry itself cannot.History studies how eve! nts and people contribute to form (and/or destroy and/or modify, influe! nce...) civilizations and lead to the world we now know.For example, Julius Caesar needed a calendar that was fixed relative to the seasons so that it could be used for military planning; the Egyptians had such a calendar which was essential for them to predict the yearly rise of the Nile River, an event that determined the whole agricultural cycle. Caesar goes to Egypt, meets Cleopatra and learns about the calendar (and a lot of other things). That is why we now use a solar calendar of 365 days and a quarter (with appropriate corrections with leap years and all that).Before that, the most popular calendars were lunar (the month begins at the New Moon as in the Chinese calendar, or on the first day on which the crescent moon can be seen as in the Islamic calendar).The study of the 'history' of the universe (known as cosmology) does look at interactions between energy and matter (and particles and gravity and... all various manifestations of energy). Energy and matter d! o not behave the same as Earthly events and people. Different rules are needed for the analysis. Just as different rules are needed to understand the interaction between atoms that form molecules. That is why we study chemistry separately from history (unless, of course, one studies the history of chemistry, in which case it pays to understand both sets of rules).Same thing with evolution. The manner in which a specie's DNA gets altered with time (to form new species) has nothing to do with the manner in which events in one country will affect the way people behave in another country. So again, evolution should be studied separately from history.This does not stop one from studying both (or even more) and finding similarities and differences, or even causes and effects.And of course, nothing is totally independent. To understand the rules of evolution, one needs to understand some chemistry. To understand cosmology, one needs to understand lots of physics and mathemat! ics....Show more

Brice Greczkowski: It's just the Moon.... It's ! the original. When we discovered similar bodies around other planets, we had to call *them* something else because "Moon" was taken.

Alden Soldano: Trajectory is not dependent on mass... an asteroid or comet with much greater mass would follow the same path as a very lightweight one....