Lessons 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 (Darwins theory of Evolution)
Protoplasm
Hypothetical contents of a living cell- the “you inside the globule” idea
Prebiotic soup
imaginary ocean of amino acids at earth’s beginning
sequence specificity
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 too create the digital code (DNA)
Self-organization hypothesis
Molecules forces to 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