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Harun Yahya

CONCLUSION

he professor of philosophy and history of science Thomas Kuhn, in his book, The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions, deals with the concept of paradigm—a scientific worldview accepted at any
T particular period of time. Sometimes scientists ally themselves closely with a paradigm, but over
time as a result of new discoveries, it becomes clear that their paradigm was wrong. For example, at one

time the commonly-held worldview was Claudius Ptolemy's model of an Earth-centered universe. It was
a very strong paradigm, but was toppled by the discoveries of Copernicus, and a new paradigm was ac-
cepted in its place. According to Kuhn, the world of science often undergoes great paradigm shifts that

are called "scientific revolutions."

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