Order, order in the court
The predictable patterns that govern how nature works
What are laws of nature?
One reason our planet has a regulated temperature and can transport nutrients
What is "lots of water"?
The process of using experimentation, observation, and reasoning to develop mental models of the natural world.
What is science?
An informed prediction, based on a theory
What is a hypothesis?
This way to know truth involved studying God's word. It is how Christians can know truth.
What is Special Revelation?
A conflict in contemporary culture fueled on one hand by those who incorrectly claim that science shows there is no God, and on the other hand by Christians whose interpretations of the Bible lead them to reject widely accepted scientific theories.
What is the faith-science debate?
One reason our planet is not too hot or too cold
What is "the distance from the sun"?
A statement, supported by a lot of scientific evidence, that is true as far as we know
What is a fact?
The first step in the scientific method
What is state the problem?
This is the way things really are. It can be known through God's world (creation) or God's word (Bible)
What is truth?
This evidence for intelligent design is a repeated pattern in nature found on a krill's eye
What is a tessellation?
The prevailing theory about the origins of our universe
What is the Big Bang theory?
The best representation at present explaining all the known facts
What is a theory?
This variable is manipulated on purpose
What is the explanatory variable?
This way to know truth is obvious and evident in God's creation. It is knowable by anyone who can see.
What is General Revelation?
There is no reason or logic, the world got here by chance. There is reason and logic but we cannot know it. There is order and structure in our world because of an intelligent designer.
What are possible explanations for laws of nature?
The magnetic shield surrounding the earth that protects it from the solar wind
What is the magnetosphere?
When an experiment does not do this, scientists will reconsider the experiment, the hypothesis, and adequacy of the theory
What is "not confirm the hypothesis"?
This group does not receive any treatment. It acts like a baseline.
What is the control group?
This theory held that heat travels like a gas between pores of a substance
What is Caloric theory?