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BJU Biology Ch 8

BJU Biology 4th edition - Chapter 8

TermDefinition
abiogenesis The concept that life can arise from nonliving substances.
antediluvian Before the flood.
apparent age A feature of God's creation; man, plants, and animals created in their mature forms; earth created with the appearance of age.
artifical selection Man's controlled breeding of organisms in an attempt to influence characteristics.
Christian world-view A way of looking at life based on three key principles o fthe Bible: God made the world and placed humans at the center, the world is fallen because of man's sin, and God is working to redeem the world to Himself.
common ancestor A hypothetical organism that supposedly gave rise to two or more types of organisms.
Creationist One who believes the Bible's account of Creation.
convergent evolution The development of similarities in groups of organisms assumed to be unrelated, attributed to adaptation to similar environmental conditions and pressures.
day-age theory An attempt to interpret the days of Genesis 1 as ages rather than as literal 24-hours days.
deluge fossil formation theory The belief that most fossils were formed by the Genesis Flood.
environmental determinism The concept that the environment determines an individual's characteristics.
extinct No longer in existance.
evolutionist One who believes in the three components of evolutionary theory.
fitness A measurement by the production and survival of an organism's offspring.
fossil Any evidence or remains of an organism preserved in the earth's crust.
genetic load The number of mutations within an organism or its gene pool.
geologic column The sequence of fossil-containing rock layers that shows the supposed recocrd of the history of life on the earth.
homologous structure Organs that are similar in structure between two organisms; once thought to show evolutionary relationships.
intelligent design A movement that asserts that living things show evidence of design that cannot be totally explained by the random processes of Darwinian evolution.
irreducible complexity A tenet of the intelligent design movement claiming many structures & processes in living things have so many interdependent parts & steps in their actions they couldn't operate unless all components were present simultaneously in their finished state.
Neo-Darwanism (mutation-selection theory) An evolutionary theory proposing that mutations produce variations and that natural selection determines which variations will survive in order to produce biological evolution.
progressive creationism The belief that the physical universe is old and that at certain points in time God created ceratin organisms.
punctuated equilibrium The theory that evolution occurs rapidly for a period of time followed by a long period of nonevolving before another period of rapid evolution.
radiometric dating method A method of determining the age of an object by measuring the amount of a radioactive substance that is part of the object.
scientism The belief that science is the only way to find truth.
secular Free from any religious influences or beliefs.
sedimentation The settling out of materials due to the action of water or wind.
specified complexity A tenet of the intelligent design movement attempting to show whether a particular structure or process is struly the result of design; it must be both specific and complex.
survival of the fittest Part of Darwin's evolutionary theory; only the organisms best suited to their environment will survive.
theistic evolution The interpretation of the Bible according to evolutionary theories, purporting that God used evolution as His means of creation.
theory of descent with modification Part of Darwin's evolutionary theory that states that newer organisms are modified versions of older organisms.
theory of evolution A composite of ideas involving the philosophy of evolution, the theory of cosmological beginnings, and the theory of biological evolution.
theory of natural selection A process that supposedly results in the survival of the organisms that are best suited for their environment.
topography Land features.
vestigial structure An organ that supposedly no longer has any function.
worldview The belief system that a person uses to interpret and understand the world around him.
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