rule 1) No we will not do your homework for you, the hard work will be good for you and it will turn you into a better person.

rule 2) Do not then go on to spam all the other forums with your homework requests, one post here will do, and it will probably get read.

rule 3)Not all questions have answers! teachers give questions to make you think, so think. your brain is the result of several million years of evolution, apprecialte it and use it.

rule 4) Be Grateful.

Aye! Perfect timing, I just told faf last night there needs to be rules for homework help.

As a teacher, i can wholeheartedly agree with the rules!

LOL.

And what if you really can't think or come up with an answer what do you do?

Ask, and we`ll point you in the right direction for the thought process

gene said in post #4 :

LOL.

And what if you really can't think or come up with an answer what do you do?

 

Wait another several million years.

Kedas, i think Yt's come up with a better idea.

 

Anyway, i don't think i will live that long. By that time, my ashes would have become dust on earth.

Oh I dunno,,, I think Kedas` idea has it`s good points also )))))

your brain is the result of several million years of evolution, apprecialte it and use it.

rule 4) Be Grateful. [/b]

What if evolution is false?

Why would it be?

Just a thought.

Why would it be?

 

Becuase, historically, all other scientific theories have been wrong. So it is safe to assume that evolution is incorrect too.

-Demosthenes- said in post # :

What if evolution is false?

 

then God Did It becomes a valid answer from everything, and you can abandon education and run naked through the fields like a newborn new zealand lamb.

then God Did It becomes a valid answer from everything, and you can abandon education and run naked through the fields like a newborn new zealand lamb.

 

NOt at all. It is not as if there are only two choices -- god or evolution. It could just be that our theory of evolution is not quite right and it will be revised.

 

Rememeber, if anything is wrong with the thoery of evolution, then it is false and must be revised. So, just because the theory is not accurate does not mean that we must turn to god for answers.

 

Furthermore, evolution does not reject the idea of god at all :/ I don't really understand why people think that the theory of evolution and the concept of a god are at odds. They clearly adress different issues. One attempts to describe how organisms change over time the other offers an explination why there is anything in the first place.

 

And even more, why must acceptance of god be antithetical to education. Just wondering why you think the two are in opposition

VendingMenace said in post # :

 

Becuase, historically, all other scientific theories have been wrong. So it is safe to assume that evolution is incorrect too.

 

Not 'wrong' as such. Just imprecise.

 

And evolution DOES exist.

VendingMenace said in post # :

 

Becuase, historically, all other scientific theories have been wrong. So it is safe to assume that evolution is incorrect too.

It is daft to assert that 'the theory of evolution' is right or wrong as a whole. Physical theories that get superceded tend to be single mathematical frameworks, so when part goes they collapse entirely, at least as a metaphysical system. Whereas evolutionary theory encompasses pretty much the whole of biology in one form or another, but the logical links are not as strong or rigid as in a physical theory. so if contemporary ideas of speciation turn out to be wrong the rest of the science will be basically ok. It should also be noted that much of evolution is somewhere between (the classic philosophical conception of) science and history, wherein reinterpretation is prevalent rather than outright refutation. Finally, dealing with a process that can be pinned down to a particular time and place helps to make our limited sample of the possible observations more persausive as representatives of the whole.

Parents often pressure their children to get good grades. If their boy or girl doesn't reach a certain level of expectation, the parents may reprimand, punish or ground the student. So the kids may have to cheat to reach their parents' expectations.

 

What are these children to do, someone has to help them. Not everyone is a scholar.

 

O the Humanity won't somebody think of the children!!!

Cheats never prosper!

 

what you like, "Hey, I`m not a REAL doctor, I cheated, but lie back while I cut you open, I`m sure it shouldn`t hurt"?

Cheats get caught and mercilessly slaughtered by their teachers.

But they don't learn the things that they cheat on!

Actually, cheating is often a good way to learn.

 

The trying to "get away with something" often increases motivation, and sharpens focus on the task of having the right answers.

 

Sumarizing salient points, organizes the "new" data in our mind set.

 

The repetitive copying on small pieces of paper etc., actually re-enforces the learning.

 

Being prepared, relieves nervous tension and improves self confidence.

 

Observation: I had a friend once who did just as well on a test, even though she brought the wrong set of crib notes. Much better than she would've done without the "cheating" activity.

Actually' date=' cheating is often a good way to learn.

 

The trying to "get away with something" often increases motivation, and sharpens focus on the task of having the right answers.[/quote']

 

But it doesn't help you understand the reasoning behind something, especially in scientific subjects. You can really screw up if you copy all your work, as many people found out on my maths course, because you actually have to think to answer the exam questions - you can't just memorize them.

 

Don't be fooled into thinking in this way; it'll come back to bite you in the ass some day.

may i also add, that quite often in the homework help section the title will be 'maths homework' or 'simple question' or 'please answer' and that is a really useless title, as no one knows what it is about, so please can you give your thread a title which will let others know what it is actually about.

Great post! I shall try to follow the rules.

useful tools which can allow you to answre most questions yourself:

 

google

 

google 'define:' operator

 

wikipedia

 

for more detailed info (ie, research papers), pubmed

 

reguarding cheating: cheating is all fine and good, and alot of useful skills can be learned by cheating, but remember that to pass a cours you have to know the subject. cheating can be used to pass little tests and essays so that you have more time to learn the work, but to pass the big end of unit tests you must actually understand the subject matter.

 

also bear in mind that many universitys have quite complex systems which are hard to fool. here are a few examples of my unis anti-cheating doobries

 

#multiple choice homework tests are scanned into a computer. a mathmatical alogarithm compares all of the wrong answres that students give. any two tests that have a suspiciouse coinsidence of wrong answres are flagged up (eg, Q12: should be answred B: students 10 and 23 both put E; Q20, should be answred C: students 10 and 23 both put A etc probability of occouring by random chance = 0.23% ie can assume at 99% confidence interval that they cheated). all at the touch of a button.

#essays can be scanned aswell. a computer program can search for homology between essays.

#paragraphs can be scanned into a computer and compared against a journal database with a computer program that they have, which can even find a match to foreighn-language journals, and after the plagarised material has been reworded and rearranged.

 

soooooo, possibly best not to cheat at uni level.