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apolgia, exploring creation with general science

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Science   Accumulating and classifying observable facts  
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Imhotep   an ancient man renowned for his knowledge of medicine  
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Poppy   A flower  
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Poppy seeds   contain pain relieving chemicals  
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Morphine   a pain relieving chemical found in poppy seeds  
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Codeine   a pain relieving chemical found in poppy seeds  
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Papyrus   An Ancient form of paper, made from the plant papyrus  
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Thales   A 6th century scientist who studied the Heavens/space  
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Anaximander   A 6th century scientist who studied life of all kinds  
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Anaximenes   A 6th century scientist who studied Air  
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Atoms   Make up everything. Developed by the Ancient Greeks  
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Leucippus   a Greek scientist who lived around 100 to 150 years after Anaximenes, an built on his works  
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Democritus   studied atoms and density  
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Density   describes how tightly packed the matter is packed in a substance  
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Aristole   called the father of life science. he wrote about philosophy, mathematics, logic, and physics  
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Classification   filing, organizing, and ordering scientific facts in a reasonable, and systematic way  
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Alexander the Great   the king of Macedon  
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Spontaneous generation   the idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances  
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Archimedes   lived 100 years after Aristole, he was a notable mathematician  
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Ptolemy   lived 100 years after Christs birth, studied the heavens  
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Ptolemy system   Ptolemy's view of the stars and planets  
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Geocentric system   Ptolemy's theory that the earth is in the center of the universe  
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Evolution   the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth  
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Alchemy   finding a means to transform an inexpensive substance into gold or a precious substance  
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Chemical reaction   when one, or more substances interact to form one, or more new substances  
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Dark ages   the time of the Roman Empire  
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Encyclopedias   large volumes of scientific observations and speculations  
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Constellations   patterns of stars  
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Supernova   essentially the explosion of a star  
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Nebula   a cloud of dust and gas  
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Robert Grosseteste   A roman Catholic Bishop, who inquried to the reason behind the scientific facts, known as the father of the Scientific method  
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Heliocentric system   the theory in which the Sun is the Center of the universe  
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Roger Bacon   A theologian who believed the more people about Science, the more the would learned about God  
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Thomas Bradwardine   Questioned the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, and he ousted the works of Aristole  
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Nicholas of Cusa   studied the planets and stars, broke free from Ptolemy's ideas  
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Nicholaus Copernicus   invented the heliocentric system, wrote books, and changed the way science was done  
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Copernican system   Also known as the heliocentric system, invented by Nicholaus Copernicus  
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Andereas Vesalius   wrote and illustrated a book about the "insides" of the human body  
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Johannes Kepler   made observations of the heavens, introduced the idea the the planets travel in Ellipses  
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Foci   the singular of focus  
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Galileo Galilei   worked with telescopes, discovered that planets only reflect the light of the sun,  
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Blaise Pascal   wrote "Pascals wager", was a mathematician and scientist  
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Atmospheric pressure   assumes the air we breathe exerts pressure on everything  
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Ellipse   a sort of an oval  
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Dietrich Von Friberg   Explained the scientific phenomenon of the rainbow  
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Sir Issac Newton   a brilliant man that invented the three laws of motion  
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Robert Boyle   the founder of modern chemistry  
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Antoni Leeuwenhook   a chemist who invented the microscope  
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Microscope   an optical instrument used for viewing very small objects  
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The Enlightenment   1735 A.D to 1820 A.D  
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Carolus Linnaeus   wrote a book the classified all living creatures that had been studied  
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Antonie-Laurent Lavoisier   studied Chemical reactions  
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Law of Mass Conservation   the idea that matter cannot be created or destroyed only, it can only change forms  
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Atomic theory   invented by John Dalton, the idea of atoms  
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Combustion   the process of burning  
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Industrial Revolution   industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production.  
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Charles R. Darwin   invented the immutability of species, natural selection, and advanced the theory of Evolution  
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immutability of species   The idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change. The idea that species were immutable by many pre-Darwin biologists  
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Natural Selection   the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring  
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Louis Pasteur   A chemist the destroyed the idea of Spontaneous generation  
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Pasteurization   subject (milk, wine, or other products) to a process of partial sterilization,  
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geology   The study of rocks  
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Sir Charles Lyell   Sir Charles Lyell was the most famous lawyer and geologist of his time. He wrote " Principles of Geology"  
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Gregor Mendel   An Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics  
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Genetics   how traits are passed from parent to offspring  
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Michael Faraday   worked with electricity  
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James Clerk Maxwell   the father of modern physics  
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electromagnetism   the interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields  
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James Joule   He studied the relationship between heat and mechanical work, research that led to the First Law of Thermodynamics.  
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First Law of thermodynamics   it states that the change in the internal energy of a system is equal to the sum of the heat added to the system and the work done on it.  
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Max Planek   German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory  
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Quanta   little pockets of electricity  
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Quantum mechanics   it is the part of physics that tells how the things that make up atoms work.  
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Albert Einstein   a physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy  
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Neils Bohr   developed the Bohr model  
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special theory of relativity   determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers,  
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general theory of relativity   determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers,  
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Bohr Model   a theory of atomic structure in which the hydrogen atom  
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John Dalton   experimented with Gases  
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