Logic
Ism's
In Theory...
A Mixed Bag
Limitations
100
An idea that a person assumes to be true-something that he/she bases his/her argument on, instead of something he argues for.
What is a presupposition?
100
An idea that relies on human values and does not take into account spiritual things, especially the truths of the Bible.
What is secularism?
100
The notion that the universe began with a gigantic explosion-like event about 15 billion years ago.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
100
The first law of thermodynamics: the combined total of matter and energy in the universe is constant.
What is the principle of conservation?
100
Science can only deal with the physical universe.
What is the limitation of science dealing only with observables?
200
A person's claim that he has no presuppositions
What is the "pretended neutrality" fallacy?
200
A principle that natural laws and processes today are essentially the same as they have always been.
What is uniformitarianism?
200
A theory that believes that after the world was created, then it was destroyed and sin resulted in God's need to remake the earth after a long length of time.
What is the Gap Theory?
200
The second law of thermodynamics: where all that we see is becoming run down, degenerating, or moving towards a state of disorder.
What is entropy?
200
The inability to prove a universal statement of denial.
What is the limitation where science cannot prove a universal negative?
300
An error in reasoning that occurs when a person makes a general conclusion based on a small number of cases that are not necessarily typical of the whole group.
What is a hasty generalization?
300
The idea that God has left His people on earth for a purpose-to declare His glory by being His instruments of redemption in every area of life.
What is redemption?
300
Assumes the language of Genesis is symbolic. Day is a period of time rather than an actual day.
What is the Day-Age Theory?
300
When we use reasoning to work from a general truth to a more specific truth.
What is deductive reasoning?
300
When science can establish a method of developing atomic energy but not create the answer to how to use it appropriately.
What is the limitation of not being able to make moral judgements?
400
A fallacy that involves attacking the person involved in the argument instead of attaching the argument itself.
What is the ad hominem fallacy?
400
The belief that only material things are real.
What is materialism?
400
A compromise between belief in Creation and evolution, proposing that evolution was the tool God used to create things.
What is theistic evolution?
400
Reasoning where you work from a specific observation to a general truth.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
The inability to produce final answers. In fact, for each question answered, often more new questions are raised.
What is the limitation of not being able to provide Ultimate truth?
500
One of the most common types of logical error, it assumes that something is the cause of an event because it happened first.
What is the post hoc fallacy?
500
The belief that scientific inquiry is the only path to truth.
What is scientism?
500
A theory based on the concept of deception, where God created the world looking old and that it could have in fact been made 5 seconds ago.
What is the belly-button theory?...AKA:
500
A methodology, or set of standards that scientists hold to when doing research and reporting their results involving asking a good, reasonable, testable, non-contradictory, currently relevant, and simple question, doing background research, constructing a hypothesis, testing it, drawing conclusions and reformulating the hypothesis or presenting the results.
What is scientific methodology, or the scientific method?
500
Something that will determine what type of model a scientist will chose to develop to explain or prove his work.
What is the limitation of being subject to biases?
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