An objective, standardized process that describes how to conduct valid experimental research.
What is the Scientific Method?
A scientific test of a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
The way truth is known by something we experience first hand.
What is direct observation?
Three ways we can know the truth.
What is
Direct Observation
Valid Logic
Divine Revelation
The scientist who concluded that all animal tissues are made up of cells.
Who is Theodor Schwann?
The four key points that define a theory.
What are
A theory is a representation of how part of the natural world works.
Theories are “mental models.”
Theories should account for the known facts (so far as possible)
Scientific theories must enable scientists to formulate new hypotheses.
The process of using experiment, observation, and reasoning to develop mental models of the natural world.
What is science?
A mysterious, and wonderful process of complex systems with 6 main characteristics.
What is Life?
The way truth is known through the observation of creation.
What is general revelation?
The way things really are.
What is truth?
Contributed the word “cell” to science when he described the box-like structures in thin slices of cork as similar to cells, or small rooms, of a monastery.
Who is Robert Hooke?
The Steps of the Scientific Method.
What are
State the problem
Research the problem
Form a hypothesis
Conduct and experiment
Collect data
Analyze the data
Form a conclusion
Repeat the work
A statement, supported by a lot of scientific evidence, that is correct so far as we know.
What is a scientific fact?
Known as the smallest living organism (pictured below).
What is Mycoplasm gallisepticum?
Reasoning based on true premises.
What is valid logic?
A model, representation, or explanation that seeks to account for the related facts and provide means for producing new hypotheses.
What is a theory?
The scientist who theorized all plants are made up of cells.
Who is Matthias Jakob Schleiden?
The answer to this amazing meme:
What is hahahaha?
The continuous cyclic process of scientific facts that moves from collections of scientific facts to theory, to hypothesis, to experiment, to analysis, and possibly review, finally resulting in new scientific facts.
What is Cycle of Scientific Enterprise?
A testable, informed prediction, based on a theory, of what will happen in certain conditions.
What is a hypothesis?
God revealed truth through written word and his creation.
What is divine revelation?
The largest living organism as pictured below.
What is Armillaria ostoyae?
He improved the simple microscope to observe and describe single-celled organisms.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
The steps of the Scientific Method.
What are
State the problem
Research the problem
Form a hypothesis
Conduct and experiment
Collect data
Analyze the data
Form a conclusion
Repeat the work
To develop accurate theories-successful mental models of how the natural world works as a representation or explanation.
What is the goal of science?
The six characteristics of life.
What are:
Organized
Gather matter and energy
Grow and Develop
Reproduce and pass on genetic information
Respond to Stimuli
Adapt to the environment
The way truth is known through the reading of God’s Word.
What is Special Revelation?
A representation or explanation.
What is a mental model?
The three statements of Cell Theory.
What is
All living things are made of one or more cells
All cells come from pre-existing cells (life comes from life)
The cell is the fundamental unit of structure and function in all living organisms.
The reason there can be no conflict in the belief in God and the study of the natural world.
What is when we observe his creation we are observing the way things really are and how He intended them to be?