2016 Mod5

Question 1

Define the following terms:

A. Life science

Answer 1

A term that encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms

Question 2

B. Archaeology

Answer 2

The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics

Question 3

C. Artifact

Answer 3

Objects made by people, such as tools, weapons, containers etc.

Question 4

D. Geology

Answer 4

The study of earth’s history as revealed in the rocks that make up the earth

Question 5

E. Paleontology

Answer 5

This study of life’s history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms

Question 6

F. Aristotle’s dictum

Answer 6

Benefit of the doubt is to be given to the document its self, not assigned by the critic to himself

Question 7

G. Known age

Answer 7

The age of an artifact as determined by a date printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a work of history

Question 8

H. Dendrochronology

Answer 8

In the process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree

Question 9

I. Radiometric dating

Answer 9

Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item

Question 10

J. Absolute age

Answer 10

The calculated age of an artifact

Question 11

K. The principle of superposition

Answer 11

When artifacts are found in rocks or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts

Question 12

If you wanted to learn the history of life other than human life would you use archaeology are paleontology

Answer 12

Paleontology

Question 13

Name three tests used to evaluate documents that claim to be historical

Answer 13

Internal test, the external test, and the Bibliographic test

Question 14

Give a brief description of each of the tests listed in question three

Answer 14

The internal test asks the question is it consistent within the text

Question 15

In what test is Aristotle’s dictum used? Why must we use it?

Answer 15

In the internal test.

Question 16

There are two reasons to believe that the copy of an agent document might not be the same as the original. One is that the person making the coffee mate have made some unintentional mistakes. What is the other reason?

Answer 16

A deliberate change made Because someone asked them to for a certain copy

Question 17

What are two things that help they document past the bibliographic test?

Answer 17

Copies written close to the original document and other copies of different documents close to that time period.

Question 18

That is the Bible and contain any contradictions that make it fail the internal test?

Answer 18

No.

Question 19

Does the Bible have any difficult passages that might seem like contradictions?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Why are the two accounts given in Acts 9:7 and Acts 22:9 not contradictions?

Answer 20

One of them is to hear sound and the other is to understand the sounds

Question 21

Why are the two different genealogies of Christ given in Luke 3 and Matthew 1 not contradictory?

Answer 21

One is the line of Joseph and one is the lineage of Mary

Question 22

Why can we say that the Bible passes the external test better than any other document of its time?

Answer 22

Because it has the most archaeological evidence

Question 23

Suppose a document passes the internal test and a bibliographic test but some of the conclusions of archaeologists go against what the document says. If the document has some or other external support (other historical documents some archaeological evidence), why should you not automatically say that it fails the external test?

Answer 23

The evidence could be wrong

Question 24

Why can we say that the New Testament passages the bibliographic test better than any other document of its time?

Answer 24

It’s first copy was written very soon after the original and there are other supporting document

Question 25

Does the Old Testament past the bibliographic test

Answer 25

Yes better than any other book of his time

Question 26

The age of an ancient settlement is determined by using dendrochronology on some firewood that had been chopped down but never used by the inhabitants. Does the settlement have a known age or an absolute age

Answer 26

Absolute age

Question 27

A coffin of a great king is discovered. The date of the Kings death is recorded in a document of history. Does the confident have a known age or an absolute age?

Answer 27

known age

Question 28

It’s an archaeologist gives an absolute age for an artifact, does that mean we know for certain how old the artifact is?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

Why does an archaeologist use master tree ring patterns

Answer 29

So they know the age of the preserved logs

Question 30

What is the underlying assumption of the principle of superposition?

Answer 30

The layers were four and one at a time

Question 31

I suppose an archaeologist used dendrochronology to determine that the city was built in 2500 BC. Several years later, another archaeologist is digging deeper under the site of the city and, in a lower layer soil, he signs the remains of another city. Unfortunately, there is nothing he can use for any dating technique. He can still conclude something about the age of the city. Assuming the principle of superposition is true in this situation, what can he conclude?

Answer 31

The city was built later than 2500 BC.

Question 32

Besides it being discussed in the most accurate history evidence of this time, what other historical evidence exist to indicate that the word wide flood actually did occur

Answer 32

Other countries have similar stories that and are too far away from each other so it’s almost impossible to get them all together