SSFT Marsch Exam 1
Everyone lives by some sort of - answer faith
Faith can mean the lense - answer through which a person sees the world
Faith and science are like - answer oil and water
What is Science? - answer- connected body of demonstrated truths
- observed facts systematically classified
- joined together
- general laws
- methods for discovery
Scientific Method - answer1 Hypothesis
2 Observation
3 Theory
4 Law
Hypotheses must be - answertestable by experiment
A theory - answer- interprets data
- suggests new avenues of research
- can be tested
- can tie together with others
Law is the - answershort mathematical expression of a physical phenomenon
A theory is good when - answerIt is
- accurate
- consistent
- wide scope
- simple
- fruitful
Empiricism - answerA method of science that states that knowledge can be found by
senses and derived from experiences
Empiricism is what kind of view? - answerBottom-up (you get laws/theories by
experimental data)
, Problems with empiricism - answer1 the summa of societal evolution
2 a societal construct (based on worldviews)
Jocelyn Bell Bernell - answerUses the role of curiosity to find understanding on pulsars
The Problem of Demarcation - answerHard to tell the difference between what science
a is and how it differs from other branches
Pseudoscience - answerLacks key ingredients of evidence and having a test for
wrongness
Example of pseudoscience - answerAstrology
What set the stage for the Warfare Model? - answerHistorical Positivism
The WarFare Model was pioneered by - answerAuguste Comte
Phases of the Warfare Model - answerTheological phase, metaphysical phase, positive
(scientific) phase
Theological phase - answerFetishism, Polytheism, Monotheism
What ushered in the second phase of empirical science? - answerThe Enlightenment
according the the Warfare Model, if positivism is true - answerthose who retain a
theological perspective can be enemies of progress
Warfare (conflict) Model - answer- AD White (1896)
- John William Draper (1874)
The Warfare Model is culturally very - answerpersuasive but not really supported by
evidence
Richard Dawkins (New Atheists) - answerA universe with a supernatural presence
would be a fundamentally and qualitatively different kind of universe from one without
Non-Overlapping Magisteria (NOMA) - answerA very common model; separates
science and religion, they have similarities but are different
Paul Hewitt in regards to NOMA - answerDon't let faith influence science and science
overlap faith
NOMA gets right - answer- religion and science are not identical sets of knowledge
- science is not the sum of all knowledge
Everyone lives by some sort of - answer faith
Faith can mean the lense - answer through which a person sees the world
Faith and science are like - answer oil and water
What is Science? - answer- connected body of demonstrated truths
- observed facts systematically classified
- joined together
- general laws
- methods for discovery
Scientific Method - answer1 Hypothesis
2 Observation
3 Theory
4 Law
Hypotheses must be - answertestable by experiment
A theory - answer- interprets data
- suggests new avenues of research
- can be tested
- can tie together with others
Law is the - answershort mathematical expression of a physical phenomenon
A theory is good when - answerIt is
- accurate
- consistent
- wide scope
- simple
- fruitful
Empiricism - answerA method of science that states that knowledge can be found by
senses and derived from experiences
Empiricism is what kind of view? - answerBottom-up (you get laws/theories by
experimental data)
, Problems with empiricism - answer1 the summa of societal evolution
2 a societal construct (based on worldviews)
Jocelyn Bell Bernell - answerUses the role of curiosity to find understanding on pulsars
The Problem of Demarcation - answerHard to tell the difference between what science
a is and how it differs from other branches
Pseudoscience - answerLacks key ingredients of evidence and having a test for
wrongness
Example of pseudoscience - answerAstrology
What set the stage for the Warfare Model? - answerHistorical Positivism
The WarFare Model was pioneered by - answerAuguste Comte
Phases of the Warfare Model - answerTheological phase, metaphysical phase, positive
(scientific) phase
Theological phase - answerFetishism, Polytheism, Monotheism
What ushered in the second phase of empirical science? - answerThe Enlightenment
according the the Warfare Model, if positivism is true - answerthose who retain a
theological perspective can be enemies of progress
Warfare (conflict) Model - answer- AD White (1896)
- John William Draper (1874)
The Warfare Model is culturally very - answerpersuasive but not really supported by
evidence
Richard Dawkins (New Atheists) - answerA universe with a supernatural presence
would be a fundamentally and qualitatively different kind of universe from one without
Non-Overlapping Magisteria (NOMA) - answerA very common model; separates
science and religion, they have similarities but are different
Paul Hewitt in regards to NOMA - answerDon't let faith influence science and science
overlap faith
NOMA gets right - answer- religion and science are not identical sets of knowledge
- science is not the sum of all knowledge
