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19 Cards in this Set
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Deism
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"reason and observation of nature suggest the existence of God- God does not intervene"
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Atheism
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-scientific materialism- "all that exists is material"
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Theistic
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-special creation/young earth creation
"literal 7 day creation account |
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"Good theology"
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-avoids limiting God
-embraces creative process occurring now! -God created us as biological creatures for a reason |
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"Good science"
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-Science cannot comment on things outside of realm of scientific method (cannot prove God either exists or doesn't exist)
-Understanding difference between theory/hypothesis -Science builds a story from many people's contributions |
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(Theory vs Hypothesis)
Theory |
analytic structure designed to explain a set of empirical observations
-explains multiple, diverse phenomena via many proven hypotheses -many smaller hypotheses align to create a larger theory |
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Evolution in a historical context.....
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it is an "evolving" idea
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Platonic "ideal"
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each species is an ideal "type" created with a set of unchanging attributes that define its nature
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Special Creation
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each species was particularly created by God
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Catastrophism
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rare, periodic geologic events led to rapid, "special" creation of geologic features (Noah's flood created the Grand Canyon.
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James Hutton (Gradualism)
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Earth's geologic features are from currently operating processes
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Thomas Malthus
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Not all individuals will survive
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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
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1. Use and Disuse
2. Inheritance of acquired characteristics (species gradually change) |
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Georges Cuvier
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-father of paleontology
-Catastrophism (Fossil record indicates a long line of life on earth; most of which are now extinct |
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Charles Lyell
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Uniformitarianism
Geologic processes have occurred at same rate today and in the past |
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Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace
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Wallace was going to publish the theory but learned Darwin had much more because darwin gave him his volumes, so they worked together (peer reviewed)
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The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
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(NS) the genetic variation of a population changes because individual's with certain heritable traits leave more offspring due to enhanced survival and reproduction
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Evolution
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change in genetic make-up of a population through time
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Thomas Malthus
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"population increases in a geometric ratio, while the means of subsistence increases in an arithmetic ratio"
(Not all individuals will survive) |
