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Ch.1 Science Test.
Mrs. Mary Benton
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Creation Mandate | Is God's commandment to have dominion over all living creatures, fill the earth with life, and subdue the earth. |
| What does God redeem? | He redeems His people from wrong thinking. The human mind as part of our soul. |
| How do Christians examine the earth and its systems from a Christian viewpoint? | Christians have the advantage of building on the strong foundation of biblical assumptions, allowing them to reach sound scientific conclusions. |
| Worldview | the overall perspective that we use to see and interpret the world. |
| What is your worldview made up of? | What you believe about the most important things in life. |
| True Or False? Studying Mars surface with robotic rovers is not part of God's complete plan for redeeming people from their sin? | False |
| Why should a Christian want to help others? (will have to write out on test) | a Christian should want to help others because we are created in God's image, we were given the Creation Mandate, and Jesus commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves. |
| What are the two great commandments? (will list on test) | 1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. 2. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. |
| Give two ways earth science helps us declare the Glory of God. (will list) | a. by discovering God's works b. by imitating His Creativity through the Creation Mandate |
| Earth Science | is simply the knowledge and organized methods of observing the earth and its processes using appropriate tools |
| Give the major themes in the Bible that frame a Christian Worldview | a. creation b. the Fall of man c. God's curse on His Creation d. redemption |
| With what does the secular history of the universe begin? The Christian History? | The secular history of the universe begins with the Big Bang Theory. The Christian History of the universe begins with Creative acts of God. |
| What is the main difference between scientific theories and laws? | A scientific theory explains something we observe while law describes the relationships among physical quantities or other observations. |
| True or False? Presuppositions are what we assume to be true according to our worldview. | True |
| the scientist that studies waves generated by earthquakes is called | a seismologist |
| the scientist that studies the geography of the ocean floor is called | a marine geologist |
| the scientist that studies rocks on mars is called | a astrogeologist |
| the scientist that studies the basins of the Great Laked is called | a limnologist |
| True or False: Data collection relies entirely on scientific experiments | False |