The Creation The Creation Mandate & Worldview
The Commandment to study and use the earth and its resources for God's glory and man's benefit.
What is the Creation Mandate?
A workable explanation of what a scientist thinks is happening in nature.
What is a scientific model?
The general term for all the information scientists collect through observation.
What is data?
The first major step where a scientist typically begins investigating a problem or unanswered question.
What is forming a scientific question?
The type of science that deals with observable, repeatable questions and current-day processes in the present.
What is operational science?
An overarching perspective that we use to see and interpret the world.
What is a worldview?
An initial, testable explanation that guides a scientist's research.
What is a hypothesis?
Scientific information collected with an instrument containing a numerical scale.
What is measured data?
The step in the scientific process where a scientist reads related research papers and consults experts.
What is conducting initial research?
The type of science that deals with events in the unobservable, distant past.
What is historical science?
Specific ideas that a person assumes to be true without proof.
What are presuppositions?
A model used as a framework to explain many observations, often answering "why" questions.
What is a theory?
Descriptive observations and details that do not use numbers, such as color or texture.
What is descriptive data?
A type of scientific test that allows a researcher to vary only one factor at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
The principle that assumes the world operates in an orderly, reliable, and predictable way.
What is the principle of uniformity?
The view of earth history that takes the Bible seriously and places the earth's age at approximately 7,000 years.
What is the young-earth creationist view?
A description that often includes a mathematical equation with symbols, describing phenomena without necessarily explaining them.
What is a law?
Conclusions drawn from an assumed truth.
What is an inference?
The final standard step in a study where scientists share their findings with the broader community.
What is publishing results?
The principle stating that for every observable result, there must be an adequate cause.
What is the principle of cause and effect?
The process by which God restores all things to their original purpose of glorifying Him.
What is redemption?
The quality that is considered the most important feature of a good scientific model.
What is workability?
What is the risk or consequence if a scientist fails to collect enough data during an investigation?
What is making invalid or incorrect inferences?
The step in a scientific study where a researcher examines and makes sense of the collected information before drawing final conclusions.
What is analyzing data?
Why are the conclusions of historical science generally considered less certain than those of operational science?
Because historical science deals with unobservable events in the distant past and cannot be tested directly through repeatable experiments in the present.