Lesson 5-7 Flashcards
chemical evolution
how you get from non-living chemicals to the first living organism
biological evolution
how you get from simple life forms to complex(Darwin’s theory of evolution)
protoplasm
hypothetical contents of a living cell-the “goo inside the globule” idea
prebiotic soup
imaginary ocean of amino acids at the earths beginning
sequence specificity
function dependent on the arrangement of the parts
DNA
deoxyribonucleic acid; a molecule which stands and transmits heredity information within the cell
prebiotic natural selection hypothesis
desirable traits in the chemicals of the “prebiotic soup” were selected and passed on to create the digital code(DNA)
self-organization hypothesis
molecular forces of attraction created in digital code(DNA)
“junk DNA”
DNA sections that do not direct the building of proteins
methodological naturalism
only materialistic theories allowed
Isaiah 45:18a
For this is what The Lord says- He who created the heavens, He is God; He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it…