Jackson - 7th Science Test 1 Flashcards
What is worldview?
The overarching narrative that a person uses to see and interpret the world?
It shapes your beliefs and values, and it will guide you as you make life choices.
What is Life Science?
the study of life and biology
What are 5 ways to describe Naturalism?
- scientist believe that living things came from completely natural processes.
- Might believe in God or might be atheists.
- God is not life’s designer
- believe life is the product of evolution
- Science is the authority on truth
What is biblical worldview?
- Trust in the Bible as God’s word
- God reveals truth to us in the Bible
- God’s design
What is creation?
- God spoke everything into existence from nothing in 6 days.
- God made a good creation because He is a good God.
- He provides for us and cares for his creation.
- His creation glorifies Him.
Who is God’s highest creation?
Man:
1. was made in His image, separating him from the rest of the living things.
- His image produces our personalities and emotions, our abilities to plan and reason, our sense of eternity, our desire to create, love and be loved.
What was the creation mandate?
He commanded Adam and Eve to fill the earth and have dominion over it.
What was The Fall?
Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, all of creation was cursed. Death is the result of sin.
What is Redemption?
- God provided an escape form sin through His Son Jesus.
- We have hope.
- Jesus came to earth to restore creation through His sacrifice for sin.
- Effects of the Fall will be reversed.
- We can prepare by living out the Creation Mandate.
What naturalistic scientist?
Dinosaurs - products of millions of years of evolution
What is creationist scientist?
Dinosaurs - Bible’s account of Noah’s flood.
What is Ethics?
- using moral principals help people apply life science in good ways
- is this right or wrong?
- We need a biblical way to evaluate ethical issues in Life Science.
- In order to make good and ethical decisions in God’s eyes, we should follow Biblical principles and seek biblical outcomes.
What are biblical principales?
- God created the world and life works best when people live the way the He wants them to live.
- He shows us in His Word. This is the place to find what God says is good and evil.
- We are made in the image of God.
- The Creation Mandate
- Considering the whole truth of the Bible.
What are 3 biblical outcomes?
- Good goals
- Targeting right outcomes
- Making wise decisions
What are the results of biblical principles and outcomes?
- People flourish
- Creation thrives
- Giving God glory
What are organisms?
Living things
What 5 characteristics does an organism need to have to be considered alive?
- Organization
- Energy
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Response
What is organization in relation to organisms?
All living things are made of cells.
What is energy in relation to organisms?
organisms need energy for movement and for carrying out other life processes.
What is growth in relation to organisms?
organisms grow and develop
What is reproduction in relation to organisms?
life comes from life. every organism alive today came from another one of the same kind.
What is response in relation to organisms?
have the ability to respond to their environment
What is the definition of homeostasis?
organisms ability to respond to their environment. The environment is constantly changing as well as an organism’s body. The organisms body is constantly having to adjust (homeostasis)
What is the definition of data?
information people collect
What is qualitative data?
data communicated using words or descriptions
What is quantitative data?
data communicated with numbers
What is the definition of theory?
an idea that scientist use to explain the data they have collected
What is the definition of law?
the idea that scientists use to describe what they observe.
What are things that make up the value of life?
- God has engineered your cells to work together to maintain your body’s homeostasis.
- God provided this for all living things
- Life has been divinely engineered
- The complexity require for even a unicellular organism to maintain homeostasis is too great for it to be the product of random chance.
- You are God’s special design made in His image.
What is the Law of Superposition?
this is the law that scientist use to make sense of what is happening to living things over time. The basic idea is that organisms buried deeper in undisturbed rock layers are older than the living things buried higher in the ground.
What do Naturalists believe?
think thousands to millions of years have passed before the next rock layer was laid.
What do Creationist believe?
God’s word recognize that these rock layers were laid down very quickly during the Flood. Higher layers may indeed by younger than older layers, but only by a matter of hours or days.
What is the definition of Model?
simplifies something in the world to explain, describe, or represent it.
Ex. physical object, a graph, a computer program or even a number.
What is scientific inquiry?
involves a variety of tools and skills to answer a question or solve a problem. This is how science works in the real world.
What are the 8 parts of a scientific inquiry?
- controlled experiment
- variables
- independent variable
- dependent variable
- observe
- Test
- analyze and draw conclusions
- communicate
What is the definition controlled experiment?
a way for a scientist to test the way he thinks something works by examining the effect of one factor at a time.
What is the definition of variables?
factors that change
What is the definition of independent variable?
the scientist changes the experiment
What is the definition of dependent variable?
can change due to the independent variable.
What is the definition of hypthesis?
an explanation based on limited observations
What is classification?
helps us generalize among groups or organisms to see how they are similar. It also helps us compare similar organisms to see where they are different. This is just a tool we use.
What is Taxonomy?
the science of sorting organisms into groups
What are the 8 parts of the classification system?
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Phylum
- Class
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Species
What are the 3 traits of domains and kingdoms?
- the types of cells they have.
- The number of cells they have
- How they get energy
What is the nucleus?
the dense part of the cell that contains the information it needs to carry out cell processes
What are Eukaryotic cells?
cells with a nucleus
What are Prokaryotic cells?
cells with NO nucleus
What are Autotrophs?
organisms that make their food using energy from their environment
What are Heterotrophs?
organisms that get energy by eating other organisms
What is the definition of Scientific Name?
identifies an organism uniquely.
The first part of the scientific name gives the what?
Genus
The second part the scientific name gives the what?
Species
Classification vs. Worldview:
Who wants to develop a classification system that shows the evolutionary relationship of organisms?
Evolutionist - this violates God’s Law of nature that organisms reproduce after their own kind.
Classification vs. Worldview:
what is the diversity of life that we can see around us is not the mark of evolution but the Creator’s mark?
Biblical Worldview - information continues to reveal itself in a new species and varieties, but no new kinds of organisms.
