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CHCS 8th CH1
CHCS Earth Science Chapter 1 (p3-14)
Question | Answer |
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ex nihilo | out of nothing; God created everything out of nothing |
science | man's observations of the physical world |
faith | a confident belief in the authority or reliability of something |
Hebrews 11:1 | "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." |
scientism | the belief that scientific inquiry is the only path to truth; that all of the world's problems can be solved through science |
cosmologist | scientist who theorize about the beginning (origin) of the universe. |
big bang theory | states that the universe began in a gigantic explosion-like event about 15 billion years ago |
worldview | a person's set of beliefs and assumptions about how the world works. |
creational goodness | that everything that God created was good before sin |
Creation Mandate | Genesis 1:28; God gave mankind the privilege of exercising good and wise dominion over the earth and the things in it |
total depravity | every part of us is turned away from God, from birth, and there is nothing we can do on our own to remedy the situation |
uniformitarianism | "the present is the key to the past"; the principle that the processes we see in the earth today have always been |
secular | used to describe anything that relies on human values and does not take into account spiritual things |