Chapter 1- Natural Sciences And The Christian

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Faith

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Belief in the authority and reliability of something because it or its ultimate source is believed to be trustworthy.

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Science

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The total collection of knowledge for man’s methodical observations of the universe.

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Scientism

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The belief that scientific inquiry is the only path to truth.

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Cosmologists

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The branch of astronomy that deals with the general structure and evolution of the universe.

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The Big Bang theory

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The most popular evolutionary theory for the origin of the universe.

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Worldview

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View of the world

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Creational goodness

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The principle that the universe, as God originally created it, perfectly filled his intentions for its existence.

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Creation mandate

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It’s the authority and responsibility for subduing and managing the earth for God’s glory and man’s benefit.

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Total depravity

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We’re born sinners.

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Eisegesis

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It’s making something up that wasn’t intended or wasn’t written by the author.

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Uniformitarianism

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The belief that conditions today are the same they always have been.

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Secular

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Any idea or human activity that is not supposed to be related to a religion or religious teaching.

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Materialism

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The philosophical belief that only physical, material,or measurable things are real.

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Fallacy

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An error in reasoning.

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Hasty generalization

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A logical fallacy resulting from drawing conclusions from too few examples or from examples that are not representative of all the possibilities.

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Circular reasoning

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The logical fallacy of assuming a conclusion to be true in the course of arguing for that conclusion.

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Ad hoinem fallacy

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A logical fallacy in which the speaker is attacked rather than the speakers argument.

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Post hoc fallacy

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Assuming.

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“Pretended-neutrality” fallacy

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The logical error of claiming to have no presuppositions.

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Presupposition

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Something is believed to be true without proof.

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Deductive reasoning

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A logical process to determine what is true and false.

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Inductive reasoning

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From examples they draw conclusions.

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First law of thermodynamics

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Energy is not now being created or destroyed but converted from one form to another.

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Conservation

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The principle that the sum total of all matter and energy in the universe is constant.

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Second law thermodynamics

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Greater disorder = less usable energy.

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Degeneration

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The principle that all things tend to die ,become more disordered, fall apart, and run down.

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Entropy

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The measure of the disorderliness of a system.

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Scientific methodology

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The steps a scientist takes to solve a problem.

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Data

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Observations being recorded.

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Hypothesis

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A testable and tentative (not fully worked out) description for an
observed phenomenon.

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Model

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Visualizes or represents anything that cannot be directly observed.

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Bias

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A belief that a person holds based on his experience or knowledge of the subject.

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Theory

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A tool used by scientists to study scientific problems.

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Law

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Repeatedly confirmed information.