KNOW YOUR SCIENCE
The ____ method is the approach scientists should use to evaluate evidence (make an observation, ask a question, form a hypothesis, predict and test a theory).
What is the scientific method?
Young Earth theory concludes that the earth is less than this many years old?
What is 6,000 - 10,000 years old?
The Bible and fossil records support the concept that dinosaurs lived in the same times as humans.
What is TRUE?
The Bible states that these celestial creations are infinite and each one is unique, as modern science has proved. In the Middle Ages, the consensus was that there were only thousands of them in the sky and they were all the same.
What are stars?
What’s the difference between an agnostic and an atheist?
What is agnostic (unsure of a God); atheist (belief that there is no God)?
This theory is the conceptual model that scientists use to describe the origin and subsequent evolution of the Universe. It states that the Universe began as a tiny, violent explosion about 14 billion years ago that produced all of the matter and energy in the Universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Approximately how many eyewitnesses saw Jesus after his resurrection?
What is 500?
The multiverse and the Earth being billions of years old theories have basis in the scientific method.
What is FALSE?
As shown in Leviticus 15:13, doing this simple practice under running water significantly reduces the spread of disease. Doctors didn’t adopt this practice until the 1800s, and afterwards it significantly reduced death rates in hospitals.
What is washing, particularly hand washing?
What’s the spiritual belief difference between a Christian and a Jew that is not a Messianic Jew?
What is the divinity of Jesus? This is a similar belief difference for other religions as well, such as Islam and Jehovah's Witnesses. They believe Jesus existed, but was not God.
If the Earth were 5% closer to this celestial creation, temperatures would rise to 900°F. If the Earth were 20% further from this celestial creation, temperatures would reach to levels of worldwide glaciers. What is this celestial creation?
What is the Sun?
Jesus’ life fulfilled approximately this number of Old Testament prophecies?
What is 300?
Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Josephus, Babylonian Talmud, and Lucian are non-Christian antiquity sources that document Jesus as a living human being.
What is TRUE?
Leviticus 17:11 states this substance in the body is the source of Life and Health. Doctors later discovered that this substance decodes a significant amount of information about what is going on inside our bodies, and an abundance of it is needed to sustain life.
What is blood?
What is the basic difference between original Darwinian theory vs Creationist theory to explain the origin of species?
What is Darwinian theory - evolution/transmutation of species vs reproduction? Note: Darwinian theory has been continually revised to respond to criticism and fit more in line with Deist and reproduction summations.
This force holds people on planets, as well as stars, planets and galaxies together. If it were slightly weaker, planets and stars could not form. If it were slightly stronger, stars would burn up. This force keeps the moon rotating on its axis at 23.5° which keeps its seasonal rotation and distance to sustain life. What is this force?
What is gravity/gravitational pull?
Approximately what percentage of Christians hold strong to their faith after high school, particularly while in college?
What is approximately 25%
Islam (Muslims) is the most popular world religion with more than 2 billions followers, while Christianity is the second most popular world religion with 1.8 billion followers worldwide.
What is FALSE? The correct answer is the opposite.
The 1993 Tel Dan Stela discovery of a stone from the 9th Century BC, contained inscriptions of this legendary Old Testament king. This discovery supports that this king really existed and was not a mythical figure, like King Arthur, that some secular scientists proposed. Who is this "beloved" king?
Who is King David? Other archaeological finds have confirmed the existence of other kings mentioned in the Bible such as Kings Omri, Ahab, Hezekiah, Jeroboam.
What’s the difference between a deist and a theist?
What is deists believe that God created the Universe then checked out while theists extend to believe that God interacts with and intervenes in the lives of the created? Deism relies on reason and nature as evidence for God, while Theism adds supernatural and faith occurrences as evidence for God.
The First and Second Laws of _____ contradict concepts of the Big Bang Theory. The First Law states that matter and energy cannot be increased nor destroyed just changes form (Genesis 2:1 – Heaven and Earth complete not added to). The Second Law, also known as Entropy, states generally that all matter has a natural tendency to move towards disorder. What are these laws?
What are the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics?
Approximately what percentage of “unchurched” have said that someone shared the gospel with them, talked to them about the benefits of being a Christian, and/or invited them to church?
What is approximately 29-35%?
Einstein’s theory of general relativity tells us that space, time, matter, and energy have a finite beginning. This general relativity conclusion supports the Big Bang theory.
What is FALSE?
This 1947 archaeological find contained manuscripts and fragments of all the books of the Hebrew Bible (except Esther) dating back to the third century BC to AD 68. Timing is 1000 years before previous written texts of the Bible and the wording is the same. What is this archaeological find called?
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
What is the difference between religious relativism/pluralism vs absolutism?
What is in relativism and pluralism, people determine and society accepts their own truths, values, and ethics while absolutism supports concept that God determines one set of truths, values, and ethics?