Science through the Bible
The commandment to study and use the earth and its resources for God's glory.
What is The Creation Mandate?
A working explanation of what the scientist thinks is happening.
What is a scientific model?
Data collected with instruments like scales, rulers, thermometers.
Scientists do this to help others.
What is the work of good science?
Classifying and identifying strata (layers of rocks) and finding underground resources associated with certain rock strata.
What is stratigraphy?
The perspective that we use to see and interpret the world.
What is Biblical Worldview?
The initial explanation for a problem. It provides direction for research.
What is a hypothesis?
Described in words, not numbers, descriptions of observations.
What is descriptive data?
Observing the world around us (mountains, rivers, oceans, living things, sun, moon, and stars) and figuring out how they got here.
What is historical science?
These scientists study earthquakes, seismic waves, and the earth's interior.
What is seismology?
These scientists view the world through a Biblical lens.
What is a creationist?
Forming a question
Conducting Initial Research
Stating a hypothesis
Collecting Data
Analyzing the Data
Drawing Conclusions
Publishing Results
What is the scientific process?
Analyzed data derived by observing relationships.
What is derived data?
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What day is my science test?
These scientists study the arrangements of rocks, fractures, and faults within rocks and minerals, and the history of their formation.
These scientists look for natural causes to explain science.
What is a secular scientist?
Assumes the world operates in a reliable, unvarying way (i.e. the same process should always produce the same results)
What is the principle of uniformity?
Drawing conclusions with collected data.
What is inferred data?
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Who is Mrs. Fannon's son?
Geologic chemists focus on identifying the chemicals in minerals that make up rocks, their crystal structure, and how they are formed.
What is mineralogy?
Creation, Fall, and Redemption
What are the foundational points of a Christian worldview?
For anything that is an observable result of a process - an effect - there must be an adequate cause.
What is the principle of cause and effect?
Scientists prefer this because they are able to vary one factor in their research.
What is a controlled experiment?
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These scientists identify rocks and minerals, determining their properties and studying how they formed.
What is petrology?