Lesson 5-7 Flashcards
Chemical evidence
How you get from non-living chemicals to the first living organism
Biological evidence
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 earth’s beginning
Sequence specifies
Function dependent on the arrangement of the parts
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic Acid; a molecule which stores and transmits hereditary 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 the digital code (DNA)
Junk DNA
DNA sections that do not direct the building of proteins
Methodological naturalism
Only materialistic theories allowed
Isaiah 45:18
“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; He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited- He says, “I am the Lord, and there is no other.”