Chapter 16 Flashcards
What means “out of nothing”?
Ex nihilo
Besides life, what are some other things that God created?
-time
-space
-matter
-energy
What is the belief that the universe and life formed by gradual processes?
evolution
Who was the author of Origin of Species, which combined uniformitarianism and natural selection to explain the variety of living things?
Charles Darwin
What was the ship that Charles Darwin sailed on during an expedition around South America and to islands in the Pacific Ocean?
HMS Beagle
Who was the geologist who wrote Priniciples of Geology and proposed the idea of uniformitarianism?
Charles Lyell
What is the belief that natural processes have always occurred in the same manner and at the same rate that they do now?
uniformitarianism
What is the principle stating that the true laws of nature always hold, no matter when or where they are applied?
principle of uniformity
Who was an early advocate of Darwin’s ideas of evolution who helped those ideas obtain immense success?
Thomas Huxley
Who was a prominent American botanist who supported Charles Darwin’s work?
Asa Gray
Who was a prominent America geologist who supported Charles Darwin’s work?
James Dana
What is the idea that God used evolution to make everything in the world?
theistic evolution
What is the merging of Darwin’s idead with new discoveries about heredity?
Neo-Darwinism
What is the philosophy that asserts that nothing is knowable outside the natural world?
secular humanism
What is the idea that life arose from a chemical reaction in the ocean with energy provided by thermal vents in the ocean floor or lightning at the ocean surface?
abiogenesis
Who was an evolutionary scientist who performed one of the most famous experiments to reproduce abiogenesis in the laboratory?
Stanley Miller
What is a point of infinite density and no volume?
a singularity
What is the most commonly accepted evolutionary view of the origin of the matter and energy and expanded, forming shapeless globs of gas that eventually transformed into the universe as it is today?
Big Bang Theory
Who was a self-educated opponent of Darwinism and student of the Bible who rose to prominence in the 1920s?
Harry Rimmer
Who was an early 20th-century creationist who used geological evidence to argue for a literal interpretation of the Genesis Creation account?
George McCready Price
Who coauthored The Genesis Flood?
Dr. Henry Morris and Dr. John Whitcomb
what is the study of science, especially as it related to the origins of the universe and of life based on faith in God as Creator?
creation science
What is an organization founded in 1963 to assemble scientists who would support the ideas of a literal Creation?
Creation Research Society
What is the leading creationist research establishment founded by Henry Morris?
Institute for Creation Research (ICR)