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BJU Space/Earth
BJU - Space and Earth Science - Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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science | The total collection of knowledge from man’s methodical observations of the universe as well as activities by which that is obtained. |
faith | A belief in the authority and reliability of something because it or its ultimate source is believed to be trustworthy. |
scientism | The belief that scientific inquiry is the only path to truth. |
cosmologist | A scientist that theorizes about the beginning of the universe. |
big bang theory | The most popular evolutionary theory of the origin of the universe. |
worldview | The philosophical perspective from which a person interprets all evidence in life. Ones worldview is arrived by faith also a person’s set of beliefs and presuppositions about what is true in life. |
creational goodness | The principle that the universe as God originally created it, perfectly fulfilled His intentions for its existence. |
Creation Mandate | The command contained in Genesis 1:28 in which God delegates to Adam and Eve and hence to all mankind the authority and responsibility for subduing and managing the earth for God’s Glory and man’s benefit. |
total depravity | The doctrine that from our birth every aspect of our being, mind, will and emotions, has been turned away from God. This condition was inherited from fallen Adam and only the work of Christ is able to correct it. |
eisegesis | The error of reading meaning or intent into text (especially scripture) that is not present or was not intended by the author. It is the opposite of exegesis which is careful interpretation of scripture based on what the text says. |
uniformitarianism | The principle that natural laws and processes today are essentially the same as they have always been. |
secular | any idea or human activity that is not supposed to be related to a religion or religious teaching. |
materialism | The philosophical believe that only physical material or measurable things are real. It denies the existence of supernatural beings or their activities. An underlying principal in evolutionary thought. |
fallacy | An error in reasoning. |
hasty generalization | A logical fallacy resulting from drawing conclusion from too few examples or from examples that are not representative of all the possibilities. |
circular reasoning | The logical fallacy of assuming a conclusion to be true in the course of arguing for that conclusion. Use what you believe to prove what you believe. |
ad hominem fallacy | A logical fallacy in which the speaker is attacked rather than the speaker’s argument. |
post hoc fallacy | A logical error of assuming because of a more recent event occurred after a previous event, the latter was caused by the former. |
pretended neutrality fallacy | The logical error of claiming to have no presuppositions. |
presupposition | An idea that is held to be true or is taken for granted when making decisions or arguing to a conclusion. It is the main reason for a bias. |
deductive reasoning | A logical process in which a specific statement is determined to be true from the consideration of more general statements that are known or believed to be true. |
inductive reasoning | A logical process by which a general conclusion is drawn from the implications of a set of specific examples. |
first law of thermodynamics | The conservation principle that matter and energy are not now being created or destroyed but only converted from one form to another. |
degeneration | The principle that all things tend to die, become more disordered, fall apart and run down. |
entropy | The measure of disorderliness of a system. Less organized in a system displays more entropy and more orderliness displays less entropy. |
scientific methodology | A set of standards and processes a scientist uses when studying a scientific problem. |
data | A scientific observation recorded as a detailed description or a measurement. Scientist draw conclusions based on analysis of their data. |
hypothesis | A testable and tentative (not fully worked out ) description for an observed phenomena. |
model | A working representation of what a scientist thinks is occurring in a phenomenon he is studying. |
bias | A belief that a person holds based on his experience or knowledge of a subject. |
theory | A tool used by scientists to study scientific problems. In many cases, it is a hypothesis that has been tested and is a workable description of a phenomenon. |
law | A scientific theory that has become well established because it has been repeatedly confirmed by experimentation, has made many accurate predictions, or is readily excepted by the majority of scientists. |