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applied science
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scientific activities directed toward solving specific problems
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humanism
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the philosophy that considers man the center of all things and the ultimate authority in the universe
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creationism
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the view that the universe was spoken into existence by the miraculous acts described in Genesis 1 and 2
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pure science
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scientific activities motivated by interest or curiosity and performed to gain knowledge for its own sake
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science
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man's observation of the physical world
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bias
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a way of thinking based on one's own mental learning or inclination
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value judgment
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a decision regarding the rightness, beauty, worth, or some other immeasurable characteristic of an object or action
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technology
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the practical use of knowledge gained through pure and applied science
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evolution
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the belief that the physical universe somehow structured itself out of self-existing matter, and that its parts continue to organize themselves into more complex structures as time progresses
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theistic evolution
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the attempted harmonization of evolution with belief in God
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data
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any collection of scientific information
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mutation-selection theory
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the belief that living things evolved from more primitive life forms by random changes in the DNA
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