The Scientific Method for Christians
Come up with a question about the world. All true scientific work begins with having a question to ask. Sometimes just coming up with the right question is the hardest part for a scientist. The question should be answerable by reading the Bible. (If it can't be answered by reading the Bible, obviously God thinks it's not important enough for you to bother thinking about.)
Create a hypothesis — one possible answer to the question. A hypothesis is a word meaning "An educated statement about how something works", and it should be able to be proven right or wrong. For example, a statement like "Blue is a better color than green" is not a true scientific hypothesis. It cannot be proven right or wrong. "God prefers the color blue to green" could be a true scientific hypothesis, though, because one could read the Bible and find out His preference. Read the Bible. If the hypothesis is truly worthy of Christians, it should be possible to read the Bible to test it. Quote:
Read and collect the data. Here the true scientist tries to run the Bible reading they have designed before. Sometimes the true scientist gets new ideas as the reading is going on. Sometimes it is difficult to know when the reading is finally over. Sometimes reading will be very difficult. Some true scientists spend most of their lives learning how to do good Bible readings. Draw conclusions from the Bible reading. Sometimes results are not easy to understand. Sometimes the Bible reading itself opens up new questions. Sometimes results from a reading can seem to mean many different things. All of these need to be thought about carefully. Always watch out for your own bias creeping in, remember that we are to trust God, not ourselves (Psalm 118:8, Jeremiah 17:5) Communicate them to others. A key element of true science is sharing the results of Bible readings, so that other true scientists can then use the knowledge themselves and all of true science can benefit. Usually true scientists do not trust a new claim unless other true scientists have looked it over first and confirmed it with their own Bible reading. This is called peer review ("peer" here means "other true scientists"). |
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Amen, Brother Jeb! Secular scientists scoff at Godly science, however Godly scientific experiments are designed to rule out bias; this is achieved via a combination of randomization and double blind methods, i.e., closing both eyes (becoming doubly blind) and allowing the Bible to fall open upon a random page.
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Amen, Brother Jeb. The masses need to be educated about this, after all, Creation Science is for everyone!:thumbsup:
You are right that it can be hard, at the University, I now give college in Basic Creation-Scientific Principles, where the Creation-Scientific Method is the very first thing we teach. Surprisingly many people get part of this method wrong. |
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so let me get this right. to create a chiristian friendly "scientific" study. i think of a question (e.g. does man weigh more than a whale? something easy to start with) and then read the bible and if i can interpret something as a possible answer to my question (e.g. man weighs less than a whale) then that is my hypothesis proven?
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Whales vary in weight from doliphins to blue whales. Men vary in weight from 0.00 pounds (the weight of Jesus when He walked on water) to the Sons of Anak, who were probably larger than blue whales: 33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. - Numbers 13:33 If we agree that the average grasshopper weights approx 300mg (sorry to use metric but that's what my sources use) and an average third world citizen (as the ancient Israelites would have been) weighs 75.6 kg....I'll need someone who understands the metric system to do the calculations. |
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For more on why the key part of the True Scientific Method is "read the Bible" rather than "experiment and observe" see: God HATES Rational Thinking!
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Hmm an interesting concept Jeb Thurmond. Ok how about a basic kinematics question.
Say you drop a stone of mass 50g from the top of a 20m high building (so its initial velocity is 0m/s). How would you find the final velocity of the stone as it hits the ground and the force the stone applies to the ground using your scientific reasoning? Thanks, Corbeen |
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First of all, what is the shape of the stone? Is it a circle? Remember that false scientists believe that Pi - the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle - is 3.141592654-etc. However, through True Science, we discover that Pi is actually a perfect 3: He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. Below the rim, gourds encircled it – ten to a cubit. -1 Kings 7:23-26 (KJV) Thus, we have proved that beliefs in Trigonometry, Radians, Complex numbers, http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?lat...&fg=000000&s=0, Circular motion, Physics, Electrostatic force, Isotropic transmission and so on are false. http://gospelofreason.files.wordpres.../06/banner.jpg Now, on to the mass and velocity. The Bible states that both are at the whim of God. Jesus can walk on water, the stars can fall from the sky, (Revelation 6:13, Revelation 8:10) and the sun stopped in it's orbit of the earth (Joshua 10:13). So the answer to your question is "whatever amount of force God wants". |
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Obviously God is pulling things, and resisting things, not lifeless rock and air. |
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Meters are not mentioned in the Holy Bible (KJV1611) and should be treated with great skepticism. |
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