Christian Worldview Analysis

Christian Worldview: Part II
Introduction
Science was not discovered until the late 1500s when Galileo decided to challenge Aristotle‘s findings. During the Biblical days, research design and program evaluation were used by important people; however, they did not refer to them by the same names. From Genesis to Revelations, there are examples where people used scientific evidence to solve problems and study ideas. In this paper, the researcher will demonstrate some of these important people in the Bible and how they used different research designs and program evaluations to solve problems.
How Adam Demonstrated the Use of the Concept of Classification
According to the Glossary of Statistical Terms, classification is a set of discrete,
God gave Noah the exact measurements of the ark, so it will be able to fit two of every kind, both male and female of all living creatures, Noah himself, his wife, his sons, and his son’s wives (Genesis 6:12 – 22). God told Noah that the length of the ark should be 300 cubits; the breadth should be 50 cubits, and the height should be 30 cubits (Genesis 6:12 – 22). Noah used a cubit to measure the ark, in which a cubit comes from the Latin word cubitum, and it refers to the forearm (Lovett, 2007). The measurement is not an exact measure because it measures from the elbow to the fingertip, and each individual has a different length forearm. Noah could have used an object that represented the measurement of his forearm to honor God’s request of the Ark’s measurements. However, the experimental design that Noah used was the pretest/posttest control design (Jackson, 2012). The pretest/posttest control design is an experimental design that measures both before and after the manipulation of the independent variable. In building Noah’s Ark, Noah had to measure the gopher wood in cubits before and after because God gave him special instructions for the measurement of the ark. This design provides an approximate method of gauging the size of Noah 's Ark, and how he used measurement before the scientific method was
Moses was putting too much strain on himself in judging the people, and he was going to wear himself out if he continued to do everything himself; however, Jethro had a better plan and he gave Moses counsel (Exodus 18:13 – 27). He advised Moses not to worry about the little things, which should be delegated to qualified men with the right motivations, and therefore, Moses could take care of the bigger issues. Jethro explained the benefits of this approach to Moses so he could live a long and prosperous life. The program evaluation that Jethro used is the qualitative program evaluation. Qualitative evaluations ask how well did an individual do on a program? Jethro had the knowledge of qualitative program evaluation because qualitative data expresses the quality, content, relevance of a program, attitudes, and achievements of the learners, and the quality of resources (What is Qualitative Evaluations, 1999). Jethro observed using his five senses; although people frequently reach dissimilar understandings when using their senses. Jethro showed how Moses can solve this problem and live a happy life. Jethro observed the situation, recognized that there was a problem, recommended a solution, advised how to implement the solution effectively and successfully, and explained the benefits (Herman,