Creation & Purpose
God gave mankind this command to fill the earth, exercise dominion over it, and manage creation.
What is the Creation Mandate?
An oak tree producing acorns demonstrates this attribute of life.
What is reproduction?
Information collected directly using your senses or instruments is called this.
What is an observation?
This is the perspective through which a person views and interprets the world.
What is a worldview?
The preservation and wise use of Earth's natural resources is called this.
What is conservation?
According to the chapter, God created the earth approximately this many years ago.
What is 7,000 years ago?
A dog turning its head when its owner calls demonstrates this attribute.
What is response?
An explanation of what an observation means is called this.
What is an interpretation?
This worldview views the world as natural processes without a designer or master plan.
What is a naturalistic worldview?
This philosophy generally seeks to protect nature by using it as little as possible.
What is environmentalism?
Sin brought these consequences into God's originally perfect creation.
What are death, disease, and suffering/the Curse?
A student becoming two inches taller demonstrates this attribute of life.
What is growth?
This is a simple, testable statement that predicts the answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
This is a statement or idea that is not proven but forms the basis for reasoning.
What is a presupposition?
The use of technology to enhance living organisms and their processes is called this.
What is biotechnology?
This event will completely remove the effects of the Curse from creation.
What is Christ's return?
A bear using stored fat during hibernation demonstrates this attribute of life.
What is metabolism?
This is a simplified representation of reality that should be workable and may change when new observations are made.
What is a scientific model?
This type of scientific model explains a set of observations.
What is a theory?
This field deals with ethical questions involving biology and medicine, such as animal testing.
What is bioethics?
Give two ways studying biology can help people fulfill the Creation Mandate.
What are wisely managing/conserving natural resources and using biological knowledge to help people?
Name all six attributes of life emphasized in this chapter.
What are cells, reproduction, metabolism, organization, growth, and response?
This is the first step in the scientific-method sequence presented in the chapter.
What is doing research?
F = ma is an example of this type of scientific statement describing how phenomena relate to one another.
What is a scientific law?
According to the chapter, explain why science by itself is inadequate as the basis for a complete belief system.
What is scientific ideas and interpretations can change and are influenced by human assumptions/worldviews, while God's Word provides infallible truth?