Chapter 1 And Literacy Flashcards
Two world views
Biblical and secular
Something we assume to be true without proof
Presupposition
The knowledge and understanding of scientific concept and processes required for personal decision making participation, in civic and cultural affairs and economic productivity
Scientific literacy
Constitutes the knowledge you need to understand public issues is a mix of facts vocabulary concepts history and philosophy
Scientific literacy
It’s not the technical knowledge of a proffesional scientist
Scientific literacy
What is the key to scientific literacy
- Have scientific knowledge of the natural world
- understand the method of science
What are the keys to scientific literacy
- Read articles critically
- Recognize science issues for society and legislation
- make a decision based on a biblical foundation
How do i read articles critically
By looking for bias
What is science
Study of God order and reasonable in his physical universe
And organized collection of facts or knowledge.
Systematic study of the physical universe
Limits of. Science
- all scientist have
- scientists can never make universal statement
- science can only study observable phenomena
- science cannot make value judgement
- science can only search for truth but cannot establish truth
What does the Bible say about biology
That we were created to have dominion over Gods creation
What verse shows that we should have dominion over gods creation
Gen. 1:26-28
Who was the first biologist
Adam
Put in the garden to dress and keep it
Genesis 2:15
Naming the animals
Gen 2: 19,20
What is the smallest and basic unit of matter
Atom
Two atoms put together
Molecules
Obtains nutrients by feeding on producers
Consumer
Makes its own food using nonbiological sources
Producer
Remains or stays the same
Homeostasis
DNA
Hereditary material
No nucleus ;single celled organisms That do not have a membrane bound nucleus
Prokaryotic
; have floating genetic material inside linear dna
Eukaryotic
Eukaryotics are all what
Multicelular
The naming and classifying species in a systematic way
Taxonomy
Scientific name ruling
- genus + species
- either italicized or underlined
- mist be Latin
- cannot be the same as any organism
A method of classifying organisms on ther revolutionary relationships and mot common ancestry
Cladistics
Changes because of something
Dependent
Fossils revealed extinct species
George Cuvier
Line of descent for species; you can add traits you want to yourself and to your offspring
Larmarck
Slow gradual changes in earths bio ; uniformitarianism
The present is the key to the past
Lyell
Struggle for existence (economic)
Malthus
Read Lyell and Malthus; read natural selection; extent on and variation
Big idea: fitness
Darwin
Ability to survive and have offspring
Fitness
Differential survival and reproduction of individuals of population based on difference in shared heritable traits
Natural selection
Descent with modification
Evolution
Variation
Macroevolution
evolutionary patterns and trends on a larger scale than micro evolution; eg adaptive , radiation, coe evolution.
Macro evolution
Mutation load causes ______ not macroevolution
Extinction
Three domains of taxonomy
Bacteria, archea, eukarya
Fossils revealed extinct species
Cuvier
Parent isotopes changes to daughter isotopes
Radiometric decay
Causes of rapid movement In the past
Catastrophic plate tectonics
Half life of a carbon 14
5730
Fossils. That cut between layers problem for evolutionist
Pollystrate fossils
Similar design because of recent common( ancestor evolutionary view)
Morphological divergence
2 types of variables
Independent
Dependent
Smallest unit of life
Cell
Organized array of cells
Tissue
All population of all species in a specific area
Community
All organisms in the area along with environmental factors
Ecosystem
A group of organisms. Of the same species populating a given area
Population
In an experiment the group that is exposed to the treatment
Experimental group
In an experiment the group that is not exposed to treatment
Control group
All knowledge comes through revelation
Romans 1:20
Submitted the idea of irreducible complexity
Michel Behe
