Category 1
Motivation to use science to make something better.
What is applied science?
A term that encompasses all scientific pursuit related to living organisms.
What is Life Science?
The age of an artifact as determined by a date printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a work of history.
What is known age?
This ancient work passes the bibliographic test better than any other ancient work. It also passes the internal test as well as other ancient documents in history, and it passes the external test better than any document of its time.
What is the Bible?
Ancient documents were copied by hand, those who paid for them sometimes wanted text changed, and it took much time to do the work.
What were some contributing factors to errors in ancient documents?
Motivated by curiosity to understand something.
What is pure science?
The study of Earth’s history as revealed in the rocks that make up the earth.
What is Geology?
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree.
What is dendrochronology?
A complete copy of this book of the Bible was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the version of this book that the scrolls has is word-for-word identical with the standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95% of the text.
What is the book of Isaiah?
This work has over 5,800 original copies with very few discrepancies.
What is the New Testament?
The result of pure science, applied science, or even an accident. A new process or machine that makes life better or makes a job easier.
What is technology?
Objects made by people, such as tools, weapons, containers, etc.
What are artifacts?
Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item.
What is radiometric dating?
The test that compares an ancient document to other historical known facts (from archeology to other documents).
What is the external test?
The test you apply when you decide whether a document agrees with itself.
What is the internal test?
A toaster is an example of this type of science.
What is technology?
The study of life’s history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms.
What is Paleontology?
When artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered. The deeper layers hold the older artifacts.
What is the principle of superposition?
Two first century historians who are considered objective and corroborate much of the New Testament.
Who were Cornelius Tacitus and Josephus Flavius?
This field deals with the question of how truthful and accurate history and textbooks are.
What is textual criticism?
An experiment conducted to find out why the Earth orbits is an example of this type of science.
What is pure science?
The study of past human life as revealed preserved relics.
What is Archaeology?
For a document to pass this test, there must be a relatively short amount of time between the copy and original and there has to be several copies made by different people.
What is the bibliographic test?
These tablets were discovered by French archaeologists in 1933, and deal with much of the same history as the Old Testament.
What are the Mari Tablets?
This method is used by critics when they look a base text and find corrections that have been made to it in future copies.
What is the copy-text method?