Vocabulary Words
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
What is hypothesis?
Step 1: ______________ and questions
What is observation?
Science must conform to the scientific method.
What is true?
The amount of counter examples it takes for a theory to be shown to be incorrect.
What is 1?
It only takes a single counter example for a theory to be proven incorrect.
These man-made objects are present on Mars.
What are robots?
A description of a natural phenomenon or principle that is supported by a significant amount of evidence and often includes mathematical terms
What is Scientific Law?
Step 2: Background _________________
What is Research?
Percival Lowell built an observatory to study the planet Mars.
What is True?
Semmelweis learned that this procedure helped protect his patients from dying in his ward.
What is hand washing?
Skydivers will fall with their arms and legs spread out in order to increase this.
What is air resistance?
Something that affects falling objects
What is air resistance?
Step 3: Construct ___________________
What is hypothesis?
Many of the greatest scientists were Bible-believing Christians whose worldview motivated their pursuit of science
What is true?
Science can and should be done through a biblical framework.
Which statement about science it not true?
a. science cannot prove anything
b. science is not 100% settled
c. a scientific law can never be overthrown
What is c.?
We learned that scientific law can be overthrown as a result of new information and ideas
Soap has an effect on _________ __________, of water, breaking the individual water molecules apart.
What is surface tension?
An example that contradicts a conclusion
What is counter example?
Step 4: Test hypothesis with ___________________
What is experiment?
Science is a means that something can be proved.
What is False?
The statement "Science has proved" is an incorrect statement. Scientific conclusions are continually being changed based on new information.
This might affect a scientists thinking when they are analyzing the same data differently from another scientist.
What is worldview?
A Secular Worldview believes that nothing but chance directs the energy that drives the universe.
A Christian Worldview believes that God's power keeps the laws of nature consistent.
This is a way we test phenomena that we cannot see.
Hint: it's on the daily news
What are weather predictions?
An explanation of the natural world that has been thoroughly tested and is supported by a significant amount of evidence
What is Scientific Theory?
Step 5: Analyze _____________
What are results?
Operational science relies on relics from the past and historical records to try to discover truth.
What is False?
Correct answer: Historical Science
No matter how reliable we think the conclusions of science are, they are never permanently _________.
What is settled?
1 Corinthians 14:33 says "For God is not a God of _____________ but of peace."
What is confusion?
The reason the universe is orderly and logical is because a logical God has imposed order on His creation.