1. Finding Your Way in God’s World

2. Lose Your Place,
Lose Your Life

3. Feeling Lost?
Can science be your map?

4. Science … can tell us many things.
can’t answer the most important questions.
Science has limitations!!

5. Important Questions Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?
Where am I going?
These ?’s are totally beyond the realm of science.
Are they important?
How do we answer them?

6. outlook from which you interpret life
Worldview
outlook from which you interpret life
Each world view has presuppositions—things we just assume are true.
There are two.

7. Presupposition An unproven idea Used as the basis to prove other ideas
We must realize that we do this—we pre-suppose.
There must be some starting point.

8. Christian 3 presuppositions God made the world and man.
The world is fallen because of sin.
God works to redeem the world.
Study the first 3 chapters of the Bible and you have the answers to the first 3 important questions.

9. We should use this worldview to guide our use of science.
Christian
We should use this worldview to guide our use of science.
Science should NOT guide our understanding of the Bible. Science is NOT truth—is it changeable. The Bible is not.

10. Creation Mandate Exercise dominion Best use of resources
Genesis 1:26, 28
Dominion means having power or authority.

11. Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
God has given us dominion-we are not usurpers of nature!!!
To have dominion or mastery, we must study and learn about the creation so that we can use it as God intended.
So, the Bible tells us to study the world around us.

12. Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

13. Humanism/Secularist 4 presuppositions The universe always existed.
People are just evolved animals.
Death is normal.
Scientism
Remember, these are just accepted without proof.

14. Scientism the belief that we can know things best with science
“Science will solve the world’s problems.”

15. The Bible … establishes science and gives it a reason to exist.
shows us that the world should be studied so that we can better use its resources.
Supremacy of the Bible.
What will you use to make the decisions in your life??? Your intellect??? Your will?
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

16. Question Science can’t answer life’s important questions. True False
What can---yes, the Bible.
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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17. Question The Christian worldview advocates scientism. True False
Of course not. Remember that scientism is the concept that science can solve all the problems we have. The biggest problem we have is a sin problem and only God can solve that problem. That is why Christ came to earth—to redeem man and give him an eternal home with God.
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18. It shows that the world should be studied to better use resources.
Science
Nature
Presupposition
The Bible
Remember the Creation Mandate—study the world so that we can exercise proper care as we have dominion.
Question

19. Science: The Map in Hand
So, how do we fulfill the Creation mandate? How do we study the creation? We use science to fulfill the “contract” we have with God to use AND care for the earth.

20. a simplified depiction of a complex object or concept
Model
a simplified depiction of a complex object or concept
Simplifies a complex idea.

21. Model can be physical or conceptual
is not “true” but only a simplification
The goal of a model is workability, not accuracy.
Physical means we can touch it. Conceptual means it is in our mind or on paper—ideas or equations.
Science does not find TRUTH.
Science finds out what works—what explains the situation.
Does it work, does it explain what we see????

22. Science is not … a source of final answers or truth.
going to give us a correct view of the world.
completely objective.
always based on direct observations.
Again science does not find TRUTH.
Science is never completely correct—it is always redoing experiments and reforming theories.

23. Historical Science Origins Science
the scientific study of evidence for the origins of physical and living things in the world
Where did we come from?

24. Inference
a suggestion of past causes for objects or processes that exist today based upon events and processes that are believed to have existed in the past

25. Paradigm way of thinking a mindset or worldview
Like a presupposition, it determines the activities and attitudes of the scientist.
Really no different that the term worldview.
How you look at things.

26. Hypotheses, Theories, and Laws
As scientists learn new things, new knowledge must be “fit in” with previous knowledge.
Scientists do this with hypotheses, theories, and laws.
We have to make them work with our presuppositions, or discard our presuppositions.

27. Hypothesis an educated guess
a temporary explanation of an object or event
What I think it is—based on my presuppositions and worldview.

28. Theory describes the behaviors of things or events
a “tested explanation of scientific observations”
I have tested it out and it seems to work

29. Law the end result a “statement of uniform pattern of behavior”
very different from a theory
I have tested it out every which way I can and it still works!!!

30. A theory tells why things happen.
A law describes what happens.

31. PressArt: Physical Science text p. 13

32. Science What? observing and making models
How? systematically studying creation
Why? so we can be good stewards
How do you describe science? Answer these questions.

33. Science is …
the collection of observations, inferences, and models produced through a systematic study of nature for the purpose of enabling humans to exercise good and wise dominion over God’s world.

34. Physical Science Physics Physical Science Chemistry
is made up of two areas:
Physics
Physical Science
Chemistry
This is what we are going to be studying this year.

35. the study of matter and energy and how they interact
Physics
the study of matter and energy and how they interact
This is what we will study first.
Later on you can take a course that deals with Physics alone—in greater detail and with more math.

36. the study of the structure, composition, and changes in matter
Chemistry
the study of the structure, composition, and changes in matter
This is the second half of this course.
Later on in high school, there is also a course on Chemistry.

37. Question A model is created with a goal of accuracy. True False
No—it needs to work and explain what is going on.
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38. Science is always based on direct observations.
True
False
Question

39. Doing Science: The Map in Use
How do we do science?
How do we use it??

40. How do I become a scientist?
Recognize an area of interest.
Discover knowledge about that area.
First, what does it mean or take to be a scientist?
As you learn more, you become more interested.

41. The Scientific Method Pose a question. Suggest a hypothesis.
Collect data (information).
See something—we ALL do. But a scientist wonders WHY. Then he comes up with a reason that he thinks might explain it. Then he is compelled to see if he is correct.

42. First Things First Review the Journals
the process of determining what research has already been performed that relates to the hypothesis

43. Types of Data
Qualitative
Quantitative
Descriptions
Numbers

44. How do you collect data?
data mining

45. Data Mining
reviewing studies that have already been published in order to find data that can be used

46. How do you collect data?
data mining
collection

47. taking examples from nature for study Example: an insect collection

48. How do you collect data?
data mining
collection
survey

49. Survey
a sampling or partial collection of information from a collection or group

50. How do you collect data? data mining collection survey
waiting for the opportunity

51. Waiting for an Opportunity
Sometimes scientists must wait for long periods of time for an event to occur.

52. How do you collect data? data mining collection survey
waiting for the opportunity
trial and error

53. Trial and Error
attempting to use various means to reach a desired outcome where those means that are unsuccessful are thrown out

54. How do you collect data? data mining collection survey
waiting for the opportunity
trial and error
controlled experiment

55. Controlled Experiment
a procedure for testing a hypothesis in which only one variable is altered at a time

56. Data Analysis
After the data is collected it is analyzed to determine how it relates to the hypothesis.
Does the data support the hypothesis?

57. The Scientific Method Pose a question. Suggest a hypothesis.
Collect data (information).
Evaluate the hypothesis.
Report the conclusions.

58. What Scientists Do Operational Science research Historical Science
origins
Teaching Science
Consultation

59. Question What type of data deals with numbers? Qualitative Quantified
Quantitative
Qualified
Question

60. Charting Your Course

61. Remember, science produces models, not truth.
Model vs. Truth
Remember, science produces models, not truth.

62. 2 Areas of Science
Basic or Theoretical
and
Applied

63. Basic or Theoretical find out new facts
the 500’s section in the library

64. Applied
use new knowledge
the 600’s section in the library

65. Loving God with Science
submitting
glorifying Him
adoring His greatness and goodness in His creation
displaying His greatness and goodness through our work

66. Loving our Neighbor with Science
serving
preventing diseases
energy