Truth, Facts, Theory
A mental model that explains or relates most or all of the known facts
What is a theory?
What is a lurking variable?
Who is Tycho Brahe?
The apparent motion of planet against the flow
What is retrograde motion?
A proposition that is supported by a great deal of evidence
What is a scientific fact?
The variable researchers deliberately change in an experiment
What is an explanatory variable?
This astronomer proposed that the planets orbit the sun in an ellipse
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This is how Ptolemy explained retrograde motion, the movements of the planets in an orbit
What is an epicycle?
This can be known by special revelation or general revelation; it never changes
What is truth?
The variable researchers monitor in an experiment
What is the response variable?
This astronomer published his work in secret for fear of the church
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The eighth sphere in Ptolemy's model of the heavens
What is the Firmament (stars)?
Besides relating the known facts, this is the other characteristic of theory
What is "form a new hypothesis"?
When an experiment does this, researcher check the experiment, equipment, and hypothesis
What is "not confirm the hypothesis"?
This astronomer was asked to recant his heliocentric beliefs
Who is Galileo?
"He made the moon to mark the seasons" (Psalm 104:19
"Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them" (Psalm 19:6)
What is biblical support of the Ptolemaic model?