Terms 1
The study of living things and their origins.
What is biology?
The idea that living organisms sprouted directly from such things as mud and rotting food.
What is Spontaneous Generation?
The worldview that holds to a strictly evolutionary view of the universe's origin.
What is the Naturalistic worldview?
One God exists but is separate from but involved with the universe.
What is monotheism?
The study of truth, knowledge and the nature of reality.
What is philosophy?
The theory that species evolve over time by random genetic mutations and natural selection.
What is Darwinism?
Large scale changes in biological traits resulting in different species.
What is Macro-evolution?
A single cell organism, a human eye, the heart.
What are examples of intelligent design?
Matter is all the exists and is best understood through science.
What is naturalism?
The study of what we can know about God.
What is theology?
The theory that holds certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause.
What is Design Theory?
When a certain organism becomes better suited to survive.
What is adaptation?
Published a book in 1859 about his scientific findings of life.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The belief that some things are right or wrong no matter the people, times, or situation.
What is Moral Absolutes?
The belief that there is no God.
What is atheism?
The belief that life originally came from non-living matter.
What is Abiogenesis?
Sall adaptive changes within a species' gene pool.
What is Micro-evolution?
The name of Charles Darwin's 1859 book.
What is On the Origins of Species?
The study of why and how we make moral choices.
What are ethics?
Good's communication of Himself through miracles, His word, and Jesus.
What is Special Revelation?
States that life only comes from pre-existing life.
What is the Law of Biogenesis?
The search for coded "messages" inherent in biological systems.
What is information theory?
God created an orderly universe for humans to operate on their own.
What is deism?
The study of knowledge or how we know what we know.
What is epistemology?
The belief that everything that exists is God.
What is pantheism?