bible chapter 7
scientism
Excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques
scientism
____ focuses on the basis for knowledge and teaches that the only way we can know anything is through the scientific method
fundamentalist
____ is a term that is often used to caricature someone who refuses to accept the foundational assumptions of secularist naturalism
naturalism
______ focuses on the nature of the universe and teaches that there is no supernatural
nihilist
a person who believes that life is pointless and that moral values have no basis
false
accepting the bible's authority guarantees that scientists will be right about all their scientific claims
brute facts
argument is that there is no such thing as uninterpreted factual info; everyone sees all scientific evidence through world view
false
atheists consistently hold to the same set of moral values
true
christianity should not be perceived as a threat to science
science
collection fo observational explanations, and models produced through an organized study for the glory of god and benefit of human kind
false
distrust of science is the primary problem among educated western people
nature is predictable, orderly, and governed by laws
god told noah "while the earth remaineth, seedtime, and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer, and winter, and day and night shall not cease" this is an example of what assumption about science that drawn from a biblical worldview
true
gods common grace allows atheists to have morals
compartmentalize life by buying into 2 story view
how do some christians try to embrace both naturalism and biblical truth
false
if the fall had never happened, science would not have developed
true
naturalism requires faith
true
no one person or group is in charge of science
NOMA
none-overlapping magisteria. notion that religion can deal with realm of morality, while science deals with physical world
communication
scholars in various fields hold conferenced, publish journals, make documentaries, and write books for the general public because _____ is an important norm for science
true
science is a major tool helping us to obey the creation mandate
freedom is an illusion
scientific naturalism eventually leads to the conclusion that human ____
standardization
scientists fro different regions and time periods need to communicate clearly in order to make use of each other's work. what is the most important norm that they must rely on to accomplish this/
wisdom
since the creational norms for science are not explicitly stated in Scripture, _____ is needed to discover the pattern by which the created world operates
circular
some people argue, "we should trust scientific evidence because of all the scientific evidence for trusting scientific evidence" this is an example of ______ reasoning
false
the christian view of divine order in creation is called uniformitarianism
false
the creation account of adam and eve uses metaphors and symbolism to show how god directed evolution to bring adam and eve into existence
true
the problem with the naturalistic view is that science can only describe what is. it has no authority to tell us what ought to be
cosmology
the theory or model of how the physical universe began and how it works is called ______
naturalistic
the unbridgeable gap between what is and what ought to be is known as the "is-ought problem" or the _____ fallacy
true
theologians who say that god used evolution have a difficult time explaining death and suffering without blaming god
empirical
things you can know by observing or experiencing based on the 5 senses
common grace
what allows non-christian scientist the ability to do valuable work-even morally good work-in science
loving God and loving neighbors
what are the two ultimate purposes of every academic discipline and cultural domain
human beings have the right and responsibility to rearrange nature in order to meet needs
what assumption about science is drawn from a biblical worldview
true
what we now label as science has been going on ever since the beginning when god created humankind to subdue the earth
because it represents a straightforward reading of genesis 1
why the young-earth view of creation foundational to biblical christianity's metanarrative of creation, fall, redemption
false
you can believe in the evolution of humans from earlier, apelike creatures without turning the account of adam and ice in genesis 1 into some kind of metaphor