Christian Worldview
This is the commandment to study and use Earth's resources for God's glory and man's benefit.
What is the Creation Mandate?
An initial explanation that guides scientific research.
What is a hypothesis?
Data recorded using words rather than numerical measurements.
What is descriptive data?
In this type of experiment, scientists allow only one factor to vary.
What is a controlled experiment?
I study weather and might investigate climate change. Who am I?
What is a meteorologist?
These are the three foundational points of a Christian worldview: Creation, _____, and Redemption.
What are Creation, Fall, and Redemption
This type of scientific model describes a pattern or relationship found in nature and may be expressed mathematically.
What is a scientific law?
Recording an object's mass as 53.2 grams produces this type of data.
What is measured data?
This comes before stating a hypothesis in a scientific investigation.
What is forming a scientific question?
I study Earth's rocks and structures and might investigate faults and earthquakes. Who am I?
What is a geologist?
This is the perspective through which a person interprets the world and everything in it.
What is a worldview?
This type of scientific model provides a framework for explaining many observations.
What is a scientific theory?
Data calculated or inferred from other information is called this.
What is derived data?
After stating a hypothesis, scientists gather this to determine whether the evidence supports their ideas.
What is data?
I study water and might investigate the chemistry of a lake. Who am I?
What is a hydrologist?
These are ideas that a person assumes to be true and that form the basis of a worldview.
What are presuppositions?
Complete this important distinction: Scientific theories ________, while scientific laws ________.
What is theories explain; laws describe?
Of descriptive and measured data, this type is generally more repeatable and reliable.
What is measured data?
Studying something that can be directly observed and tested in the present is called this type of science.
What is operational science?
I study oceans and might investigate ocean currents. Who am I?
What is a marine scientist?
According to the Christian view presented in this chapter, science should help people exercise this kind of dominion over God's world.
What is good and wise dominion?
A workable explanation or representation of what a scientist thinks is happening is called this.
What is a scientific model?
A scientist compares temperature records from the 1700s with records from the 1900s to reach a conclusion about temperature change. The conclusion is this type of data.
What is derived data?
Developing a model to explain how the Himalayan Mountains formed is an example of this type of science.
What is historical science?
I study objects beyond Earth and might investigate galaxies and their stars. Who am I?
What is an astronomer?