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