Activity Listen and fill in the gaps

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Activity 1. 
Listen and fill in the gaps.
1. He was conducting research on ____________ and collected hundred of 
organisms by scanning the ocean floor.
2 .___________________ is often referred to as the Benjamin Button jellyfish.
3. “Everything goes, everything comes back; _____________ _rolls the wheel of
being.
4. The population number of the immortal jellyfish is rising at an 
alarming__________________ .
5. This jellyfish is found not only in the ___________________ but also off the 
coasts of Panama, Spain, Florida and Japan.
Activity 2.
Read the text and decide which of these titles best suit the text.
1. Science and the supernatural
2. Dogmatic falsification of science
3. Intelligent design and scientific method.
An important element of the scientific method is that hypotheses must be 
testable, potentially falsifiable, to be scientific. That we build theories by testing 
hypotheses and rejecting them if proved wrong by experiential evidence. And not 
just hypotheses. Prevailing theories are also constantly open to potential 
falsification, testing against new evidence and changing to incorporate new 
findings. The concept of falsification in science was popularized by Karl Popper.
But who does this testing?
It’s not a matter of personal responsibility. A scientist who advances a new 
hypothesis is not just left alone to try to falsify it. After all, scientists are human 
too. They have their own emotions, biases, beliefs and preconceived ideas. They 
are just a susceptible as anyone else to adopting a blinkered approach to any such 
testing. In fact, most scientists probably look for experimental procedures which 
would show their pet hypothesis in a favorable light, rather than seek consciously
to develop experiments aimed at proving their hypothesis wrong. Mind you, even 
an experiment designed to confirm a hypothesis may, in the end, show it to be 
wrong.

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Science is a social activity . The real testing of any hypothesis or theory comes 
not from the individual proposer - but from her colleagues. These ideas do not 
become accepted without extensive consideration. Proposals are intensively 
discussed by colleagues in conferences and the scientific literature. And many, if 
not most, of these colleagues will try to prove the ideas wrong. Scepticism is a 
natural to scientists - at least about others work.New and interesting ideas will
also be tested by others. Repeatability of results is an important requirement for the 
acceptance of an idea.
Publication is also an important part of acceptance. After all, one’s research 
findings don’t really exist without their publication. Peer review is an important