Types of Science
A science that is motivated by curiosity to simply gain knowledge about something.
What is Pure Science?
This term encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms.
What is Life Science?
This test looks at whether a document agrees with itself.
What is the Internal Test?
A process where one critically examines texts to determine if they are accurate. It can use the "family tree" approach to analyze the accuracy of the text.
What is textual criticism?
Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item
Radiometric dating
A science whose goal is to discover or identify something useful.
What is Applied science?
The study of the past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is Archaeology?
This book of the Bible lists the genealogy of Jesus through Mary's bloodline.
What is the book of Luke?
A process whereby a critic looks at the base text and looks for corrections that may have been made in the future copies.
What is the copy-text method?
This is the age of an artifact that is certain.
What is a known age?
A new process or machine that makes life better or makes a job easier. It is also the result of pure science, applied science, or even an accident!
What is Technology?
Objects made by people, such tools, weapons, containers.
What are Artifacts?
This book of the Bible describes Jesus's genealogy through the line of Joseph.
What is the book of Matthew?
A critical process that puts a historical document through 3 separate tests that are designed to analyze its accuracy.
What is eclecticism?
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree.
What is dendrochronology?
Who is an archeologist?
The study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the Earth.
What is Geology?
Tests whether a document contradicts other known historical facts from other reliable documents or known archeological facts.
What is the External Test?
The three tests that are used to determine the validity of a historical document.
What are the internal test, external test, and the bibliographic test?
When artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts.
What is the principal of superposition?
When the age of an item is not certain and there is not a date written on the artifact.
What is the assigned age?
The study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms.
What is Paleontology?
Identifies how much time has passed between the time an original work was written and the first known copy was made. It also determines how many copies have been made by different people.
What is the Bibliographic Test?
This is the primary challenge in using the internal test especially in translating ancient documents.
What is the fact that language changes over time?
The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experimentation in order to formulate general laws.
What is science?