Earth Science
• Earth science is a
powerful tool to help
others
• Creation Mandate
• The two most important
commandments
1.1
Earth Science
• Love the Lord thy God
• Love thy neighbor
• Getting ready for a life of
service
1.1
Earth Science
• Declaring God’s glory
• Discovery
• Imitation
• We learn about God
through what He has
created
1.2
Earth Science
• We imitate God as we
obey the Creation
Mandate
1.2
Earth Science
• Living for Redemption
• Everything is fallen
• We are fallen
• God has redeemed us
• Science can help people
live redemptive lives
1.3
Earth Science
• The Gospel
• Earth science can be a
tool for helping and
preventing hurt
• Showing others that
Christianity is real
1.3
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• Redeeming the mind
• From a guilty
conscience
• From a sinful way of life
• From wrong thinking
1.3
Earth Science
• Christians examine the
earth and its systems
from a Christian
viewpoint
1.3
Earth Science
• A worldview is the overall
perspective that we use
to see and interpret the
world
• What you believe
1.4
Earth Science
• Presuppositions are ideas
that are not proven to be
true but that we assume
to be true
• Everyone has
presuppositions
1.4
Earth Science
• Secular scientists
• Bible-believing Christian
scientists
• The worldview that
accepts the Bible as the
Word of God is the right
perspective
1.4
Earth Science
• Scientific models explain,
describe, or represent
something in the world
• They are valuable
because they work
1.5
Earth Science
• Main purposes of science:
• Make existing models
better
• Create new models
1.5
Earth Science
• Models are interpreted
and used within a
worldview
1.5
Earth Science
• A hypothesis is an initial
explanation for a problem
• A theory is a model that
scientists use as a
framework to explain
their observations
1.6
Earth Science
• A law describes the way
different kinds of
measurable physical
quantities relate to each
other
• Many laws are expressed
as equations
1.6
Earth Science
• Laws are not perfect
statements of God’s laws
• Laws are our imperfect
attempts to describe the
laws God uses to govern
the universe
1.6
Earth Science
• Data is any information
scientists collect by
observing nature
• Measured data
• Descriptive data
• Derived data
1.7
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• Inferences
• Important to gather
enough data
1.7
Earth Science
• ...to
Science
exercise
is thegood
collection
and wise
of
dominion
observations,
overexplanations,
God’s world.
The
and word
models
science
produced
is also
used
through
to refer
an organized
to the
study
organized
of nature, and
methods
the processes
that
produce
found in the
nature,
observations,
for the
explanations,
purpose of enabling
and models.
people...
1.8
Earth Science
• Science is to be used to
glorify God and to benefit
our fellow human beings
• Dominion science
1.8
Earth Science
• Earth science is the
knowledge and organized
methods of observing the
earth and its processes
using appropriate tools
1.8
Earth Science
• The Scientific Process
• Forming a scientific
question
• Conducting initial
research
• Stating a hypothesis
1.9
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• The Scientific Process
• Collecting data
• Analyzing data
• Drawing conclusions
• Publishing results
1.9
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• Operational science
• In the present
• Results extend and
make theories more
accurate
• What most scientists
do
1.10
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• Historical science
• Principle of
uniformity
• Principle of cause
and effect
• Figuring out how
things got here
1.10
Earth Science
• Scientific experts
• Consultant scientists
• Educators
1.10
Earth Science
• Working in earth
science
• Geologists
• Hydrologists
• Marine scientists
1.11
Earth Science
• Working in earth
science
• Meteorologists
• Astronomers
• Engineers
1.11
Earth Science
• What about you?
• True dominion science
needs people with a
biblical worldview
1.12