Study Guide for Test 2

Question 0

What is the most compelling evidence for the intelligent design of the universe

Answer 0

the fine tuning of the laws of physics and chemistry

Question 1

Don’t forget to study memory verse and all Vocab

Answer 1

your welcome

Question 2

How many conditions in the universe must be “just right” in order for human life to exist?

Answer 2

35

Question 3

what r some parameters that must be set just right?

Answer 3

gravity and rate of expansion

Question 4

what did Greenstien suggest

Answer 4

scientists have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a supreme being

Question 5

what evidence lead us to infer that something has been designed

Answer 5

highly improbable events: a pattern or functional outcome

Question 6

what is the problem with the Weak Anthropic Principle

Answer 6

It doesn’t explain why the necessary condition of the universe are so fine tuned

Question 7

What is the problem with the many worlds hypothesis

Answer 7

There is no evidence to other universes: who is generating the universes

Question 8

if there is indeed cause of the universe, what attributes must that one possess

Answer 8

Transends and exists outside of matter, space, time and energy and must be intelligent

Question 9

describe intelligent design

Answer 9

it looks designed because it is designed (there is a god)

Question 10

Describe Darwinism

Answer 10

it looks designed but its not designed (there is no God)

Question 11

what r the two parts of the evolutionary theory

Answer 11

biological evolution

chemical evolution

Question 12

what is biological evolution

Answer 12

how we get from simple celled life to more complex life

Question 13

what is chemical evolution

Answer 13

how we get from non living chemicals to the first living simple celled organisms

Question 14

what did Darwins time think about a cell

Answer 14

it was a simple globule of plasm

Question 15

what has since been discovered about the makeup of the protein molecules that makeup a single cell

Answer 15

proteins were really big, long complicated molecules

Question 16

Give an example of something that is sequence specific

Answer 16

letters in a word

Question 17

What did Francis Crick discover in 1957 about the function of the DNA molecule within each cell

Answer 17

information in DNA directs the synthesis of proteins in the cell

Question 18

what question was raised by the discovery of complex, functional information in DNA

Answer 18

who put the message inside the DNA

Question 19

In human experience, what is the only source of specified funtional information

Answer 19

an intelligent designer

Question 20

To what does Bill Gates compare DNA

Answer 20

DNA is a software program but more complex

Question 21

all life is made up of proteins….. what r the odds that a single simple protein could come together by random chance

Answer 21

one in the 10 to the 164 power

Question 22

about how many amino acids must be correctly joined to form the simplest protein

Answer 22

at least 150 amino acids

Question 23

about how many proteins does it take to make the simplest single cell organism

Answer 23

250-400

Question 24

why serious scientist no longer thinking that life began by chance

Answer 24

chance is not a good hypothesis

Question 25

what is the problem with the prebiotic natural selection hypothesis

Answer 25

it is not alive yet. This theory depends on reproduction and copying

Question 26

what is the problem with the self organization theory

Answer 26

natural forces of attraction do not explain the information produced

Question 27

If something has the apperance of design, what do we naturally conclude

Answer 27

that it was designed by an intelligence