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The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experimentation in order to formulate general laws
What is science?
Known as the father of life sciences
Incorrectly believed in spontaneous generation
Who is Aristotle?
The steps of the scientific method
What are observation, research, hypothesis, experimentation, and conclusion?
The variable of part of an experiment to which all other variables will be compared
What is the control variable?
The three tests involved in eclecticism by which historical documents are critically analyzed
What are internal test, external test, and bibliographic test?
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
What is a hypothesis?
Father of the scientific method
Who is Robert Grosseteste?
One way a scientific theory developed by an intelligent scientist might be shown to be fundamentally incorrect
The reason to conduct a blind or double-blind experiment
What is reduce bias?
The most reliable dating method for an assigned age
What is dendrochronology?
Experiments in which neither the experimenters not the participants know the objects' identities in the setup
What are double-blind experiments?
Developed the heliocentric system where the sun is the center of our planetary system
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
The three limitations of science
What are (1) science can't prove anything, (2) science isn't 100% settled, and (3) science must conform to the scientific method?
Data that is measurable and quantitative
What is objective data?
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics
What is archaeology?
A term that encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms
What is life science?
Scientific works include the three laws of motion and the universal law of gravity
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The difference between operational science and historical science
What is operational science includes observable, repeatable experiments and historical science relies on relics from past and historical records?
One of the types of graphs used by scientists to graph experimental data
What is a circle graph or bar graph or line graph or double bar graph?
The study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms
What is paleontology?
Carbon-14 dating is an example of this popular method of using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item
What is radiometric dating?
Founder of Modern Chemistry
Who is Robert Boyle?
The distinction between a Christian worldview and secular worldview
What is a Christian worldview says God created everything with universal laws governing (order and design) and a secular worldview says all matter originated by chance from nothing (no cause or reason fro anything that happens)?
Examples of an experimental variable as well as a control variable
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Examples in which the Bible passes all three eclecticism tests
What are (1) internal-doesn't contradict itself (Jesus's genealogy in Matthew and Luke, (2) external-compare docs that already passed eclecticism tests (Josephus's and Cornelius Tactitus writings), (3) bibliographic-short time passed between original work and copies and also large number of copies?