Natural Science and the Christian
This is the study of observable facts.
What is science?
This is the force that holds the planets in their orbit.
What is gravity?
This is the distance light travels in one year.
What is a lightyear?
This is what the name "planet" means.
What is a wanderer?
This is the comet that has appeared every 75-76 years since it was observed.
What is Halley's comet?
This was the first country to build rockets.
What is China?
This has a subtle affect on a worldview.
What is a bias?
The Christian astronomer who formulated 3 laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This is the star with the greatest apparent magnitude.
What is the sun?
This planet is 1.00 ua from the sun.
What is the earth?
A depression in the ground that is the result of a meteorite.
What is a crater?
The first man (AN AMERICAN) to step foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This is a working representation of what the scientist thinks is happening.
What is a model?
This man was the first to use a telescope for viewing the heavens.
Who is Galileo?
This element was discovered on the sun before it was discovered on earth.
What is helium?
This is the line that divides the illuminated and shadowed parts of the moon.
What is the terminator?
These asteroids have the same orbit as Jupiter.
What are the Trojans?
This was the first American in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
This is the belief that conditions and processes today are the same as they have always been.
What is uniformitarianism?
This is the tendency for an object that's already in motion to stay in motion until acted upon by another force.
What is inertia?
These abnormalities on the sun are proof that the sun is rotating on its axis.
What are sunspots?
This is the spectacular rayed crater on the moon.
What is Tycho?
This is why we can see comets.
What is they reflect light?
This was the first American to orbit the earth?
Who is John Glenn?
This type of argument involves an attack on the person doing the argument rather than the argument itself.
What is the ad hominem falacy?
This is the apparent shift in position caused by a change in position by the observer, not by the object being observed.
What is a parallax?
This star explodes and leaves behind a neutron star.
What is a supernova?
These are the long, narrow valleys that start and end abruptly on the surface of the moon.
What are rills?
This is the largest minor planet.
What is Ceres?
This is the first female space shuttle astronaut who rode Challenger.
Who is Sally Ride?