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Teaching Scientific Principles

Logic dictates that sequential events account for the development of everything from a theory to an elephant. The process involved in generating an abstract construct or material construct is to be found in the study of complex systems. Simple beginnings with simple rules can cause systems to exhibit complex behavior. This complex behavior, referred to as emergent properties, can cause a system to appear to be more than the sum of its parts. However, this is not the case, as the system can be dissected and shown contain simple components whose interactions are governed by a few rules.
Witness the atom whose subatomic particles (proton, electron, and neutron) combine to produce a more complex unit whose properties emerge to produce ninety-two uniquely interactive structures. The characteristics of each of these different atoms can be attributed to the subatomic components and the rules that govern their behavior, yet there seems to be more there.
The interaction of the atoms generated molecules and the level of complexity increases again.