Theories of Origin Vocabulary

Question 1

Abiogenesis or Spontaneous Generation

Answer 1

The belief that living organisms developed from nonliving matter

Question 2

Abrahamic Religions

Answer 2

Judaism
Christianity
Islam

Question 3

Agnosticism

Answer 3

The belief that any ultimate reality (such as a diety) is unknowable

Question 4

Antedeluvian

Answer 4

pre-flood

Question 5

Carbon dating

Answer 5

Known as radiocarbon dating, this method provides objective age estimates for carbon-based objects that originated from living organisms.

Question 6

Creation Science

Answer 6

Scientific explanations for Biblical creation

Question 7

Deism

Answer 7

A religious belief holding that God created the universe and established rationally comprehensible moral and natural laws but does not intervene in human affairs through miracles or supernatural revelation. (rejects divine revelation)

Question 8

Deluge

Answer 8

Flood

Question 9

Evolution

Answer 9

the scientific theory explaining the appearance of new species and varieties through the action of various biological mechanisms (such as natural selection, genetic mutation or drift, and hybridization)
Since 1950, developments in molecular biology have ha

Question 10

Fossil Record

Answer 10

The fossil record is also the set of all fossils together that can be used to tell the history of the earth.

Question 11

Geology

Answer 11

a science that deals with the history of the earth and its life especially as recorded in rocks

Question 12

Inerrancy

Answer 12

Lack of error, infallibility

Question 13

Intelligent Design

Answer 13

The belief that physical and biological systems observed in the universe result chiefly from purposeful design by an intelligent being rather than from chance and other undirected natural processes.

Question 14

Old Earth

Answer 14

Old earth creationism (OEC) is an umbrella term used to describe biblical creationists who deny that the universe was created within the last 6,000 to 10,000 years over the course of six consecutive 24-hour days.

Question 15

Young Earth

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Young earth creationism (YEC) is the belief that God directly created the universe in six literal days and that the earth is relatively young. Young earth creationists usually place the age of the earth at 6,000 years (10,000 years being an upper limit).

Question 16

Table of Nations

Answer 16

What is commonly referred to as the “table of nations” is a list of descendants from Noah’s three sons (Japheth, Shem and Ham) found in Genesis 10.

Question 17

Uniformitarianism

Answer 17

The theory that all geologic phenomena may be explained as the result of existing forces having operated uniformly from the origin of the earth to the present time.

Question 18

Catastrophism

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The doctrine that major changes in the earth’s crust result from sudden catastrophes, such as the impact of a large meteor, rather than from gradual evolutionary processes.

Question 19

Worldview

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1 The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.
2 A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group.
3 One’s personal view of the world and how one interprets it.

Question 20

Cosmology

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field of study that brings together the natural sciences, particularly astronomy and physics, in a joint effort to understand the physical universe as a unified whole.

Question 21

Theistic Evolution

Answer 21

Theistic evolution is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. It posits that the concept of God is compatible with the findings of modern science, including evolution.

Question 22

atheism

Answer 22

The denial of theism, that is, of the doctrine that the great first cause is a supreme, intelligent, righteous person. Denial of the existence of god.