Ancient Scientists
This Egyptian man was renowned for his knowledge of medicine; it is also likely that this man is the biblical Joseph.
Who is Imhotep?
He claimed to have invented the telescope, but he did not. He also taught heliocentric theory at first.
Who is Galileo?
He developed a picture of an atom, which is named after him.
Who is Niels Bohr?
What is False?
An example that contradicts a scientific conclusion
The most important way that a Christian discovers truth.
What is God's Word?
The system that placed the earth at the center of the solar system, as well as the universe, with all the planets and stars travelling around the earth
What is the geocentric system?
This man was the student of Leucippus and helped to pioneer the idea that all matter was composed of little unbreakable units called atoms.
Who is Democritus?
This man theorized and taught heliocentric theory – that the sun was located at the center of the solar system and had all the planets travelling around it.
Who is Copernicus?
He invented calculus; he also developed the laws of motion and the universal law of gravity.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The first step of the Scientific Method.
What is 'Make observations?'
A primitive form of paper, made by the Egyptians from a long-leafed plant of the same name
What is papyrus?
What is 'Young-Earth Creationism'?
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances
What is spontaneous generation?
This man was the first modern scientist to use the scientific method.
Who is Aristotle?
This scientist came up with the law of mass conservation.
Who is Lavoisier?
He is considered to be the founder of modern physics.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
True or False: Science can never prove anything 100%.
What is True?
A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.
The third way that a Christian discover truth.
What is personal experience?
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
What is a hypothesis?
These Greeks are considered to be among, if not the first scientists.
Who are Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander?
This scientist is remembered for the first detailed atomic theory.
Who is John Dalton?
Author of The Origin of the Species also pioneer of the theory of Evolution and natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The second step of the Scientific Method.
What is 'Form a Hypothesis'?
A branch of study dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world
What is science?
The second way that a Christian discovers truth.
What is logic?
A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data
What is a theory?
This Greek man and his student Democritus pioneered the idea that all matter was composed of little unbreakable units called atoms.
Who is Leucippus?
He was the first modern scientist to use the scientific method.
Who is Grosseteste?
He is best known for his Special Theory of Relativity (e=mc2) and his General Theory of Relativity (i.e., how gravity works).
Who is Albert Einstein?
The final step of the Scientific Method.
What is 'Theory is now a Law?'
A non-scientific practice of trying to turn base metals into gold.
What is alchemy?
This event was radically rearranged the surface of the earth and is responsible for most of the fossils and rock layers that exist around the world.
What is Noah's Flood?
The system that placed the sun at the center of the solar system and had all the planets travelling around it
What is the heliocentric system?