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PhilosophyandScience
Terms that are helpful to understand when discussing philosophy and science.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Theism | Belief in a god that created the universe. |
| Naturalism | The belief that the universe operates only on natural laws and forces. Supernatural explanations are rejected. |
| Science | The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical world through observation, experimentation. |
| Evolution | The change of genetic frequency in a population over generations. |
| Gene | A piece of DNA that codes for something the cell will make. |
| Allele | An alternate form of a gene (brown hair/blond hair). |
| Tree of Life | The idea that all organisms on earth came from one common ancestor, the first organism. |
| Lawn of Life | The idea that God created the common ancestor to families of organisms, and species we have today descended from that one. |
| Worldview | A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. |