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8ES Chp 1: Creation

8th Grade Earth Science Chapter 1: Creation Mandate Leach

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Creation Mandate God's command in Genesis 1:28 to manage the earth wisely, and to use it for God's glory and man's benefit.
worldview The overall perspective that is based on presuppositions that a person uses to view and interpret the world.
presupposition An assumption about how the world works that a person believes to be true.
model A simple, useful, workable representation of something in the world.
Big Bang Theory A naturalistic model for the origin of the universe. It claims that the universe began about 13.5 billion years ago from a single dense point of matter that violently expanded into its present size through completely natural processes.
hypothesis An initial explanation for a scientific problem and is the starting point for testing the validity of an explanation.
theory A model that attempts to explain a set of observations.
law A description of the relationship between two or more variables that is based on repeated observations; describing something that happens without any explanation as to why it happens.
data Any information scientists collect by observing nature.
measured data Data that usually consists of numbers with units; produced using instruments.
descriptive data Data describing an observation using words; depends more on the observer's judgement.
operational science The study of presently occurring scientific events.
principle of uniformity A scientific principle asserting that the same process will always produce the same results; assumes that the world operates in a reliable and consistent way that makes it predictable.
principle of cause and effect A scientific principle that tells us that any observable result of a process - an effect - must have an adequate cause.
historical science The investigation of events that happened in the unobservable past by observing evidence in the present; depends heavily on a scientist's worldview.
scientific process An orderly way of investigating a question in science by using measurable and repeatable observations to test a hypothesis.
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