Test-O-Rama
This is a test to determine whether or not a document agrees with itself or not.
What is An Internal Test?.
Pg. 92, last paragraph
This material breaks down easily once a living organism dies and is found in lesser quantities over time.
What is Carbon-14?
Pg. 105, Figure 4.17 'A fossil fish'
This is the result of pre science, applied science, or accident.
What is Technology?
This is the study of human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is Archaeology?
A medieval scribe wrote in the margins of this document "Fool and knave, leave the old reading, don't change it!" when criticizing a previous scribe for making changes to the document.
What is the Codex Vaticanus?
This type of dating uses a radioactive process to determine the age of an item.
What is Radiometric Dating?
Pg. 104, blue text at bottom of the page.
This is the study of history by using tree rings to determine the trees age which helps understand things like weather over a period of history.
What is Dendrochronology?
This is science motivated by curiosity and understanding.
What is Pure Science?
Pg. 88, figure 4.2
These are objects made by people that are found and help understand how those people lived like tools, weapons and containers.
What are Artifacts?
These documents were discovered in 1947 and are the most complete records of the Old Testament. It also showed that the book of Isaiah was faithfully copied over 1,000 years.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
This type of test asks if a particular document contradicts or is contradicted by other known historical facts.
What is an External Test?
Pg. 95, second paragraph.
A type of writing used by the Egyptians made up of pictures, or pictographs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
The type of science that is motivated by the desire to make something better.
What is Applied Science?
This is the study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the Earth.
What is Geology?
This forced archaeologist William F. Albright to change his mind and proved wrong what he wrote in the 'Journal of Biblical Literature" about the book of Genesis was borrowed form a legend or made up .
What is Archaeological Evidence?
This is the age of an artifact as determined by something like a reference to another work of history or an actual printed date.
What is Known Age?
Pg. 102, blue text definition.
This words definition has changed over time to include 'to encircle with one's arms', 'Measurement of outstretched arms to understand depth', and 'Understand after much thought'.
What is Fathom?
Because this is the most historically accurate document of it's time, there is a type of test that is used to to determine the accuracy of other historical documents.
What is the Bibliographic Test?
This is the study and understanding of animals and plants as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms.
What is Paleontology?
This Greek word means 'to hear' but also meant 'to hear and understand' as it is written when Paul has his vision on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:7)
What is Akouo?
Tto pass, this test requires that a relatively short period of time having passed between the copy and original and there to be several copies made by different people.
Pg. 99, second paragraph.
This is the pattern of a tree's ring count from the outside to the inner ring used to understand weather patterns form years before.
What is the Master Tree Ring Pattern?
Pg. 103, first paragraph as in-line blue text definition.
This is the Latin word for Science
What is Scientia?
Not in the book! Not in this module at least.
These are best for understanding the history of civilizations that left them behind because they fill in the gaps of artifacts found from the same civilization(s).
What are Historical Documents?
Scientist consider this to be a circular dance where one improves the other and increases the ability to further our ability to see things and learn new things.
What is Science is dependent on Technology.