Scientific explanations are made public. Scientists make presentations at scientific meetings or publish in professional journals, making knowledge public and available to other scientists. Scientific explanations are tentative. Explanations can and do change. There are no scientific truths in an absolute sense.
Scientific explanations are historical.
Past explanations are the basis for contemporary explanations, and those, in turn, are the basis for future explanations. Scientific explanations are probabilistic . The statistical view of nature is evident implicitly or explicitly when stating scientific predictions of phenomena or explaining the likelihood of events in actual situations. Scientific explanations assume cause-effect relationships . Much of science is directed toward determining causal relationships and developing explanations for interactions and linkages between objects, organisms, and events.