Creation, Fall, Redemption
What are the 3 major themes of the Bible?
an organism's ability to keep its life processes balanced.
What is homeostasis?
When a person gets too hot, he sweats to cool his body. When he gets too cold, he shivers to warm up.
How does your body automatically maintain homeostasis when you get hold or cold?
information collected using numbers
What is quantitative data?
observe, test, analyze, and draw conclusions, and communicate findings.
What are the steps of a controlled experiment?
data
What is every law, theory, and model based on?
God has designed life with the energy and information it needs to maintain homeostasis.
What does it mean to say that life has been divinely engineered?
using moral principles to make good and right decisions
What are ethics?
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
What are the 8 basic levels of the classification system?
a simplification of something in the world use to explain, describe, or represent that something. It can be a physical object, a graph, a computer program, or even just a number.
What is a model?
A cell has complexity and organization that could not possibly be the result of random chance.
How does a cell appear to have been divinely engineered?
information collected using words and descriptions
What is qualitative data?
organization, energy, growth, reproduction, and response.
human flourishing, a thriving creation, and God's glory
What are 3 biblical outcomes of ethics?
A group of cells allowed to grow without any treatments or chemicals.
What is a control group?
an idea that scientists use to explain their observations
What is a theory?
the type and number of cells in an organism and how the organism gets energy.
What 3 things do scientists consider when classifying an organism?
the big story that a person uses to make sense of the world. It shapes his beliefs and values and guides him as he makes choices in life.
What is a worldview?
taxonomy
What is the science of sorting organisms into groups?
an idea that scientists use to describe their observations
What is scientific law?