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BJU Chemistry Ch 1
Bob Jones Chemistry - Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Worldview | The perspective from which one sees and interprets all of life |
| Image of God | Bearing a likeness to God |
| Creation Mandate | God's first commandment to mankind: to exercise good and wise dominion over the earth by managing and using His world and its resources. |
| Dominion science | Scientific activity that seeks to obey the Creation Mandate for the glory of God and for the benefit of other humans. |
| Scientific model | A simplified representation of phenomena |
| Presupposition | An idea assumed true without proof, often used as a basis for understanding or proving other ideas. |
| Scientism | Extreme faith in human reason and science as the only reliable source of truth |
| Bias | A person's preference, whether intentional or unintentional, for certain conclusions over others |
| Naturalistic worldview | The assumption that only matter exists and there is nothing supernatural |
| Christian worldview | A perspective on viewing the world based on the teachings of the Christian Scriptures |
| Chemistry | The study of the composition and properties of matter and the energy transformations accompanying changes in the fundamental structure of matter |
| Matter | Anything that occupies space and has mass |
| Metallurgy | The process of extracting metals from their ores and adapting them for commercial use |
| Apothecary | An early pharmacist who prepared and sold a wide variety of chemicals and herbs |
| Alchemy | The ancient study of transmutations between base metals and gold, sickness and health, age and youth, or even early and supernatural existence |
| Science | The systematic study of nature based on observations and the collection of knowledge that results from that study |
| Applied science | Exploring natural products and processes for specific applications to benefit humans |
| Pure science | Studying nature simply to learn new things about the universe we live in |
| Scientific questions | Questions which direct and stimulate scientific inquiry |
| Observations | Using our senses of taste, touch, hearing, sight, and smell to learn about the natural world |
| Objective | Unaffected by the observer's personal biases and presuppositions |
| Quantitative data | Observations such as weight or mass that use numerical data |
| Qualitative data | Observations such as texture or color that use non-numerical data |
| Deductive reasoning | Arguments from general, accepted statements called premises to more specific conclusions |
| Inductive reasoning | Arguments that begin with known facts and proceed to general conclusions |
| Workability | The characteristic that makes information useful or valuable in applying to other situations; the most important characteristic of a scientific model |
| Experiment | A repeatable procedure that involves observing a natural process, sometimes under controlled conditions, for the purpose of analysis |
| Controlled experiment | An experiment where only one condition is varied at a time to isolate and measure its effect on the outcome |
| Empirical | Describes an explanation determined or data gathered by experimentation, for example, empiriical data |
| Hypothesis | A temporary, testable explanation of a phenomenon that stimulates and guides further scientific investigation |
| Natural experiment | An experiment in which the conditions cannot be controlled |
| Scientific survey | A process that involves randomly selecting representative samples from a larger population to learn about the characteristics of the population as a whole. |
| Theory | An overarching explanation of scientific observations. Theories are valuable for guiding future study and making predictions |
| Law | A description (often mathematical) of the behavior of matter and energy based on the results of many experiments, describes a recognizable, repeating pattern in nature |
| Scientific method | A logical method of problem-solving that starts with observations and is based on inductive reasoning |
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