Genesis Apologetics K8 Student Zone Fun with Science (K-2 Grade)

Genesis Apologetics

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Well, hello and welcome to The Zone. I'm your host, Big Wave Dave. Well, we're back with a brand new look and an exciting new season.

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So today, we're going to talk about science. So I looked up the definition of science and here's what

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I found. Science is knowing or to have knowledge. Eh, that's not so helpful.

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Personally, I like this definition a lot better. Science is the search for truth, the effort to understand the world.

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And did you know that there are two types of science? The first type is observational or operational science.

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So have you ever done an experiment? That is observational science. It's where you come up with ideas and then you test them in the here and now.

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Now, observational science is responsible for so many cool inventions. Things like medicine and health and growing food and getting energy from the sun.

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Cars, planes, trains, all these cool inventions are from observational science. Now, scientists use something called the scientific method.

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Let's take a closer look at that. So step one is to come up with what they call a hypothesis, which is really just a fancy word for idea.

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So the puppy dog here wants to make a rocket. That's his idea, that he wants to test.

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Step two is to build the rocket and then test it to see if it works. Safety first.

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Let's see how this goes. Oh boy.

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You know what? That happens a lot with observational science. Seldom do our first ideas work out, so we have to go back and try again.

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So the puppy dog says, OK, I'm going to try a different design. So then we go back and we repeat the test.

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Will this one work? Let's find out. Yay! Looks like it worked this time.

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Good job, puppy dog. Alright, so we have confirmed that this particular type of rocket works.

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Let's do our own experiment. So the Bible tells us that God created the atmosphere on day two.

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So that means that there should be air in this room. But how can we test it?

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Well, I think that even though we can't see air, we should be able to see the effect that air movement has upon objects.

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So here's what we're going to do. We're going to do the egg in the bottle experiment. So what we do is we use a

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Gatorade bottle, and then we light something on fire and we throw it into the bottle. We place the egg on top.

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Now what's going to happen is that as that fire burns, it's going to warm up the air.

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That warm air will rise up and go past the egg. This results in a low pressure situation inside the bottle.

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So the air on the outside of the bottle is at a greater pressure, so it's going to push its way into the bottle and take the egg with it.

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Alright, so that's the idea that we want to test. Are you ready? Let's see if this works.

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Okay, first of all, if you're going to try this at home, make sure that you have your parent or guardian help you, okay?

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Alright, I'm going to light this on fire. I'm sure it's going pretty good here.

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I'm going to place the egg on top. Okay, it looks like it's trying pretty hard here.

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Come on, get in there. It can go. Not quite there yet.

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Is it going to go? Let's see. I see it moving. It's still going, folks.

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Still moving. Almost there. There it is!

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Alright! Wow! Well, that's the thing about observational science.

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Sometimes you get results that you're not quite ready for. Okay, so I think it's safe to say that we confirmed that there's air in this room because that's what pushed that egg down into the bottle.

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Alright, so the first type of science is observational science. The second type is historical science.

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So historical science is where we dig up old things like this dinosaur fossil and we come up with theories about these.

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Now what's interesting is we can weigh this or measure this fossil and things like that. But you know what

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I can't tell you? Where this fossil came from because we weren't there when it was created.

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That's why people can look at fossils like this and come up with completely different ideas about what the creature was.

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Let's play a game. This is called Who Am I? Are you ready? So what animal does this skull belong to?

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Is it an alien? An armadillo? A dog? A wombat? Or something else?

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You ready? Shout out your answer. It's a wombat. Isn't he cute?

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Alright, what about this one? Is that a rhinoceros? A buffalo? A warthog?

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A bulldog? Or none of the above? If you said bulldog, you're right.

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Wow, she is so cute. How about this one? Is that a gorilla? A chihuahua?

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A panda bear? Or a monkey? Shout out your answer. That is a panda bear.

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This is one of my favorites. What animal does this skull belong to? Is it a saber -toothed tiger?

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A woolly mammoth? A bison? Or a Chinese water deer? You ready?

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Yell it out. Believe it or not, that skull belongs to a Chinese water deer.

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Here's a closer look at that creature. So cool. Alright, last one. What does this skeleton belong to?

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Is that an alligator? A platypus? A weasel? Or something else? Believe it or not, that is a platypus.

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Now the platypus is such an amazing animal. It's got so many different types of features. It's got a soft bill and webbed feet like a duck.

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It's got claws. The females lay eggs like a snake, but they feed their young milk.

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And the males have poison spikes on the back of their legs. Now some people might think, oh this is the mother of all creatures or something like that.

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Nah, this is just a really cool creature that God made. But if we didn't have the platypus today, we wouldn't know much about it.

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Here's the point. You know, because we have these creatures, we know a lot about them.

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But if we were looking at the remains of something that no longer exists, we may make a lot of incorrect guesses about them.

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You get it? Great, let's move on. The important thing to remember is that observational science and historical science are not the same thing.

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So, question. Should we always trust scientists? Well, frankly, no.

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And here's why. Scientists are people. And people make mistakes. I know

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I make a lot of mistakes. How about you? Do you make mistakes? So you see, we can't always trust what they're saying.

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And here's another important thing. Some scientists don't believe in God. So when they're dealing with historical science, they come up with some pretty interesting ideas.

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For example, when they look at this old fossil, somebody who doesn't believe in God will think that that's an ape man.

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Or somebody who trusts God and believes God's word will look at the same bones and say, Nope, that's just an extinct ape.

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So, it's interesting that the Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

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So when we try to look into the past and figure things out and we discount God, we go down the wrong path.

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Ape men were not real. And just in case you missed it, I hope you check out our video on ape men, fact or fiction.

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Remember, we should always use God's word to test what people are telling us to see if it's true.

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By the way, I found some really cool books on science that are sold by ICR.

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I really hope you check them out. I thoroughly enjoyed reading these. So the conclusion to wrap things up.

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First of all, there are two types of science. Observational science and historical science.

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Secondly, scientists are people and they make mistakes. So we should always use

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God's word to test to see what is true and what is not. Well, I'm Big Wave Dave and that's all the time we have together today.