Personal Beliefs and Assumptions

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Personal Beliefs and Assumptions
Personal beliefs for scientific inquiry depend on the principle and hypothesis in context. My personal belief in science is that it is a blend of both logic and imagination. Science is believed to be composed of various imaginations which evolve from being a hypothesis to arguments and later principles. The principles are believed to have come from imagination since they went through testing and verification process to be scientifically proven principles. Scientific imaginations come from a study of the laws of nature and their effect on certain phenomena (Zeidler, 345).
The validation of scientific arguments proves a personal belief that science is composed of logic. Arguments undergo validation process by carrying out inference, demonstration and common sense. Measurements and collected data are important to analyze and make discoveries depending on the trend of results.
The personal beliefs lead to doubt of some scientific principles. Since the laws underwent validation, some of the data used maybe it was incorrect or biased leading to the wrong conclusion. The belief makes some of the imaginations to be a mere hypothesis but cannot be established scientific laws. For example, the hypothesis that light is composed of small particles called photons is not scientifically proven but just a hypothesis.
The biases in the collection of data occur due to personal political interests, religion or race.

Some of the data analyzed to prove a scientific argument is biased hence leading to wrong results. Biasing is done to influence the discovery or change people’s mind towards certain physical phenomena. Biases result in inventions with doubts or misleading information (Zeidler, 343).
The assumptions for scientific inquiry include that it tries to identify and explain certain phenomena which are contradicting. The discovery aims at explaining or predicting the future depending on the trend of occurrences. Discoveries are assumed to give correct prediction depending on the accuracy of results. For example, the occurrence of volcanic eruptions and moon eclipses. Identification of occurrences helps to describe certain mysterious myths and prove them wrong. For instance, the fluctuation of gravitational force can be explained using scientific data. Therefore, the data used is assumed to be accurately provided it gives a convincing argument.
Works Cited
Zeidler, Dana L., et al. “Tangled up in views: Beliefs in the nature of science and responses to socioscientific dilemmas.” Science education 86.3 (2002): 343-367.