Test 1 Flashcards
Of all academic fields, science is the one with the strongest reputation for __________ itself against God’s truth.
Exalting
___________ is the philosophy that views science as having the power to answer all questions.
Scientism
Define Absolutes:
Something that is true for all times, places and people.
Postmodernism disallows any single defining source for truth and reality, allowing for truth to come from multiple sources, resulting in ____________.
No truth
If it cannot be _______, _______, _________ or subject to examination, then it is not __________.
Observed, repeated, verified
Scientific
What are four commonly believed facts about scientists?
They are unbiased.
They are objective.
They are infallible.
They wear a white coat.
What are four truths about scientists?
They are biased.
They are not objective.
They are human.
They seldom wear a white coat.
Describe the Piltdown man:
Found in a gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912.
Considered by some to be the 2nd most important fossil proving the evolution of man.
Until it was proved to be complete fraud 41 yrs later.
Chemically stained to give the appearance of age.
Describe the Nebraska man:
A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until they found the same tooth from the jawbone of a pig.
The purpose of evolution is to cause one to _________ the Word of God.
Question
In the creative account of Genesis, the serpent temps Adam and Eve by interjecting ________ doubt and appealing to ________ _________, rather than God’s word.
Intellectual
Human reasoning
The serpent proposed that there is something good and glorious to be ________ outside of the word of God.
Obtained
If you didn’t observe it, and no one else observed it, or if it cannot be observed, the. It is not scientific but rather _________ _________ ________.
Falsely called science
What are two models of history?
Creation and evolution
Evolution requires _____, _____ and ______ _______.
Time, chance
Natural process
