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BJU Biology Ch 8
BJU Biology 4th edition - Chapter 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abiogenesis | The concept that life can arise from nonliving substances. |
| antediluvian | Before the flood. |
| apparent age | A feature of God's creation; man, plants, and animals created in their mature forms; earth created with the appearance of age. |
| artifical selection | Man's controlled breeding of organisms in an attempt to influence characteristics. |
| Christian world-view | A way of looking at life based on three key principles o fthe Bible: God made the world and placed humans at the center, the world is fallen because of man's sin, and God is working to redeem the world to Himself. |
| common ancestor | A hypothetical organism that supposedly gave rise to two or more types of organisms. |
| Creationist | One who believes the Bible's account of Creation. |
| convergent evolution | The development of similarities in groups of organisms assumed to be unrelated, attributed to adaptation to similar environmental conditions and pressures. |
| day-age theory | An attempt to interpret the days of Genesis 1 as ages rather than as literal 24-hours days. |
| deluge fossil formation theory | The belief that most fossils were formed by the Genesis Flood. |
| environmental determinism | The concept that the environment determines an individual's characteristics. |
| extinct | No longer in existance. |
| evolutionist | One who believes in the three components of evolutionary theory. |
| fitness | A measurement by the production and survival of an organism's offspring. |
| fossil | Any evidence or remains of an organism preserved in the earth's crust. |
| genetic load | The number of mutations within an organism or its gene pool. |
| geologic column | The sequence of fossil-containing rock layers that shows the supposed recocrd of the history of life on the earth. |
| homologous structure | Organs that are similar in structure between two organisms; once thought to show evolutionary relationships. |
| intelligent design | A movement that asserts that living things show evidence of design that cannot be totally explained by the random processes of Darwinian evolution. |
| irreducible complexity | A tenet of the intelligent design movement claiming many structures & processes in living things have so many interdependent parts & steps in their actions they couldn't operate unless all components were present simultaneously in their finished state. |
| Neo-Darwanism (mutation-selection theory) | An evolutionary theory proposing that mutations produce variations and that natural selection determines which variations will survive in order to produce biological evolution. |
| progressive creationism | The belief that the physical universe is old and that at certain points in time God created ceratin organisms. |
| punctuated equilibrium | The theory that evolution occurs rapidly for a period of time followed by a long period of nonevolving before another period of rapid evolution. |
| radiometric dating method | A method of determining the age of an object by measuring the amount of a radioactive substance that is part of the object. |
| scientism | The belief that science is the only way to find truth. |
| secular | Free from any religious influences or beliefs. |
| sedimentation | The settling out of materials due to the action of water or wind. |
| specified complexity | A tenet of the intelligent design movement attempting to show whether a particular structure or process is struly the result of design; it must be both specific and complex. |
| survival of the fittest | Part of Darwin's evolutionary theory; only the organisms best suited to their environment will survive. |
| theistic evolution | The interpretation of the Bible according to evolutionary theories, purporting that God used evolution as His means of creation. |
| theory of descent with modification | Part of Darwin's evolutionary theory that states that newer organisms are modified versions of older organisms. |
| theory of evolution | A composite of ideas involving the philosophy of evolution, the theory of cosmological beginnings, and the theory of biological evolution. |
| theory of natural selection | A process that supposedly results in the survival of the organisms that are best suited for their environment. |
| topography | Land features. |
| vestigial structure | An organ that supposedly no longer has any function. |
| worldview | The belief system that a person uses to interpret and understand the world around him. |
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