True or False
people tend to remember and believe well-told stories, even if false
true
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who overcame a lack of education and became the greatest fossil finder of their era
Mary Anning
whats the 2nd law of thermodynamics
a scientific law that states that the amount of useable energy in a closed system will decreased over time
What is the "RNA world hypothesis" for the origin of life?
It's a theory that proposes early life based on RNA instead of DNA and protein.
what are two of four ways Christians interpret Genesis 1?
Young-age creationism
Progressive creationism
Theistic evolution
Intelligent design
(if it was incorrect -1000 points if correct +50 points)
Faith plays a role in naturalistic science
True, it's based on faith
(-200 points)
"discovered that light can behave as a particle as well as a wave, and coined the word photon to describe a particle of light."
Arthur Compton
What is Natural Selection?
the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive longer, reproduce, and pass along more favorable biological traits.
what is the "panspermia hypothesis" for the origin of life?
The belief is that life exists throughout the universe and has been dispersed by interstellar bodies such as asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
Are the different interpretations of the creation story compatible?
Yes and no. No in the sense that some viewpoints such as theistic evolution, take substantial theological liberties with the biblical text, learning it difficult to see what about God's Word might actually be true. Yes in the sense that all viewpoints affirm that God exists, that He is the creator outside of and transcendent over His creation.
(-1500 if wrong, +100 if correct)
Science and Christianity are incompatible
False, they go hand in hand. Other faith systems are at odds with science
(incorrect go back to zero)
"Improved the agricultural economy of the USA by promoting nitrogen providing peanuts as an alternative crop to cotton to prevent soil depletion."
George Washington Carver
What was the Age of Enlightenment?
an eighteenth-century intellectual movement that emphasized reason, science, and individualism over tradition and religious authority.
How does "irreducible complexity" point to intelligent design?
It describes the way molecular "machines" (such as the bacterial flagellum) and biochemical processes (such as blood clotting) exhibit design.
How is modern science consistent with Christianity?
Scientists must assume that the universe operates in observable, measurable, and repeatable ways --- assumptions that are entirely constant with the testimony of scripture if not derived directly from a Christian worldview.
(-2000 if wrong, +150 if correct)
Galileo think that science and religion are at odds
false, he thinks they work together
"Transformed nursing into a respected, highly trained professional; used statistics to analyze wider health outcomes; advocated sanitary reforms largely credited with adding 20 years to life expectancy between 1871 and 1935."
Florence Nightingale
What is Primordial Soup?
a theory that proposes that life arose from a water-based sea of simple, organic molecules
what did the Miller-Urey experiments prove?
a 1952 experiment by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey produced amino acids through the combination of electricity and gases thought to be present in Earth's atmosphere around three to four billion years ago.
what role did Thomas Huxley play in creating a dichotomy between science and religion?
Thomas Huxley thought that religious beliefs threatened the acceptance of Charles Darwin's theory
(-3500 if incorrect, +500 if correct)
The Bible is a book of science
False, it's much bigger than that
who developed the Morse code?
Samuel Morse
What is Spontaneous Generation?
The belief that nonliving matter produced living matter through purely natural processes.
what are some modern scientific principles that are based on a Christian worldview? (name three)
1. nature is valuable enough to study
2. nature is good but not God
3. nature is orderly
4. nature's law can be precisely stated and understood
5. humans can discover nature's order
6. detailed observation is possible and important
7. the universe is rationally intelligent because God is rational
What is the watchmaker argument?
an argument for God's existence that compares the design of a watch to the design found within the cosmos and concludes that the universe, like a watch, can be best explained by the existence of an intelligent designer.
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