RE: My "Science and Faith" home page

To throw some amusement into your essay:

1. "Gather facts and then construct theory to account for them -

     inductive / Baconian method" - rough approximation interpretation

     which folks of all maturity can understand

2. "brilliant imagination that leads to hypothesis / model that

    explains the way it works" - daydreamer's aha delightful insight

    into new knowledge

3. "explain it better than competing hypothesis" - shooting from the

     hip jump to conclusions with wise selection of emphases to

     straighten out the messy list of observations

4. "formulation - consequences suggested by formula" -

     order of magnitude guessing by discern the essence

     of the situation

5. "may be falsified by further observations" - come up with

    devil's advocate bank-on-it evidence to the contrary as a

    solid obvious refutation

6. "4 factors - agree with data, coherency with itself and agree

     with others, comprehend ties together, fertility for ongoing

     research" - 4-fold way splilt-second measurement in a

     ball-park estimation scenario worth investing/investigating

7. "once and for all events of history" - final judgment of eternity

     --estimation of top contender, right approach, bottom line

       agreement, timely potential.

8. "well established theory repeatedly confirmed by new facts"

     just won't go away/give up the ghost.

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert Schneider
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 8:49 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: My "Science and Faith" home page

I have added two new essays to my "Science and Faith" home page, and
invite you to check them out:

    IV: Big Bang and the Universe Story

     V: Evolution for Christians

http://www.berea.edu/SpecialProject/scienceandfaith/essays.asp.

Bob Schneider
Received on Thu Jul 8 12:18:41 2004