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Marsch SSFT Midterm Questions and Answers 2024
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Marsch SSFT MidtermScience should cause us to... - answer praise God
Everybody (including scientists) live... - answer theologically
what is science ? - answer a branch of study which is concerned either with a
connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified
and more or less colligated (joined together) by being brought under, general laws, and
which includes trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain.
- oxford dictionary
hypothesis - answer weak and provisional, they must be testable by experiment
theory - answer strong and fundamental, predictive
law - answer short mathematical expression of a physical phenomenon
scientific method - answer hypothesis, observation, theory, law
when is theory good? - answer its accurate, consistent, has a wide scope, simple, and
fruitful
what is the method of science? - answer Empiricism
empiricism - answer-developed 2,500 years, from ancient Greece to present.
-not a universal cultural philosophy
-knowledge can be found by the sense and derived from experience
-conflicting theories can be tested
-bottom up view- you get laws and theories by experimental data
limits to empiricism - answer-to some-it is the summa of societal evolution (positivism)
-others-science is a societal construct based on world views (idealism)
supporters of idealism - answerPierre Duhem and Frances Yates
Pseudoscience - answerLacks the key ingredients of evidence and having a test for
wrongness. Ex. ufology, astrology, dowsing.
who are we? - answer-we are connected with God
-humans are unique creatures
imago dei - answer-moral conscience
, -we are sub-creatures
-we can define and appreciate beauty and the transcendent
-we have the complementary sexes may reflect the trinitarian aspect of God.
-we have a physical body through which we can be the CEO of organisms of the planet
are we connected to the physical world? - answerScripture suggests there is a
connectedness between humanity and the physical universe.
are we connected to creatures around us? - answer- we are "starstuff" Nucleosynthesis
from supernovas
- we are composed of the same kinds of biological molecules; nucleic acids, proteins,
lipids, and carbohydrates
-we have a microbiome
-understanding of our identity is pre-darwin
what is the imago dei - answer-made in the image of God
-we are the bride of christ
-christ is the firstborn among many brethren
-christ is higher than the angels, as is man
-christ was an embryo as we all were
Technologies refining humanity - answer-molecular biology
-nanotechnology
-quantum mechanics
making life - answercloning, genetic engineering, chimeras
taking life - answerstem cells (destroying a human organism for medical purposes,
embryonic stem cells)
faking life - answerartificial intelligence and technosapiens, chimeras
two wrong responses to technological science - answer1. expect too much from
science- consider it complete
2. resist or ignore what science has to teach
unintended consequences of technology - answerTech can destabilize and render a
society more fragile - Nicholas Nassim Taleb, the Black Swan (stock market)
Cultural responses to technological society - answer-culture of disposal
-culture of replacement
-trivial culture
-ephemeral culture
-shallow culture
the search for the "one best means" - answertechnological replacement without loss
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