Quiz - What is Science? - My Compass Classroom

Order the following:

whether we understand
the science behind every aspect of it or not
the Biblical record,
Scientific data fit with
and the Bible is a reliable book of history

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Why don’t many people realize that there is a solid body of smart, dedicated scientists who have for decades been doing insightful scientific research in the area of creation science?

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Which of the creationists’ testimonies did you listen to? What stood out to you the most?

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History can be used in what related ways (choose 2)?

The written record of people and events in time
The study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution
The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains
Used in a more comprehensive sense to refer to the actual people and events themselves

Science can be used in what related ways (choose 2)?

The group of scientists and researchers who investigate natural processes
Patterns that scientists use to make definitive statements about the universe
The process of studying the natural world in order to create a body of knowledge to help explain, predict, and control it
The body of knowledge itself that is used to describe the natural world

Throughout the history of science, people have struggled with two basic problems: we are extremely limited in our human ability to study and understand the natural world; and the natural world is overwhelmingly complex.

True
False

Fill in the blanks.

Paradigms include sets of that help make sense of the immense amount of complex —much of which cannot be identified, much less understood—throughout the world

Operational Science

performs experiments and gathers evidence to make interpretations about what happened in the past
performs experiments to explain and predict current and future events
uses observations about the natural world to create new things that rely on an understanding of how the world operates

Historical Science

performs experiments and gathers evidence to make interpretations about what happened in the past
performs experiments to explain and predict current and future events
uses observations about the natural world to create new things that rely on an understanding of how the world operates

Applied Science

performs experiments and gathers evidence to make interpretations about what happened in the past
performs experiments to explain and predict current and future events
uses observations about the natural world to create new things that rely on an understanding of how the world operates

Science is authoritative.

True
False

Which of the following is NOT important to remember about scientific authority (choose 1)?

Science operates within paradigms to interpret data
Scientists are limited in their view of the world
Science is entirely factual
Scientific knowledge is constantly changing

The Special Revelation in the Bible is more authoritative than the consensus view of conventional scientists in terms of the natural history of the world

True
False

Even the best creationist scientific model can only be an approximation of what actually happened

True
False

Creation is a book that can be read

True
False

__ can be seen and understood by everyone, regardless of their educational state or knowledge about the world; __ one either recognizes it for what it is and worships God, or one suppress the truth of it

General Revelation, Special Revelation
Special Revelation, General Revelation

Humans ‘invented’ science and it is a uniquely human activity.

True
False

The ultimate purpose or goal of science is to:

Understand the physical world
Be able to build things, cure diseases, etc.
Generate useful things for humanity
Understand history

Order the following:

theories of explanation
consistent with the physical world
Science is something humans
do to understand the physical world,
by proposing tentative truths as

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