Apologetics biology -vocabulary

The belief that God created the first speck of life on earth and then directed its evolution to generate man (Mark 10:6)

Theistic evolution

Scientific theory proposing that each living organism was created separately by a supernatural being

Creationism

Small changes over time

Microevolution

Big changes over time

Macroevolution

Study of design and purpose in nature design found in all living organisms

Teleology

Concept that considers the complexity of living organisms if any part of removed, system loses function

Irreducible complexity

DNA, impossibility of spontaneous generation

Evidence for Creation

The sudden geological appearance of most major groups of animals

Cambrian explosion

States that although the total energy in the cosmos remain constant, the amount of entertainment available is always decreasing 👉 that the universe had a beginning 👉 the universe began as a high ordered system

2nd law of thermodynamics

The profession of collective humanity towards an age of higher consciousness

Cosmic evolution

The planet is in trouble👉 means for understanding the mechanics of the world👉 they believe that if they harm another plant they are harming another god

Cosmic science

Theory that all living organisms form a single and complex living organism

Gaia hypothesis

A gradual process of changes in species by means of natural selection

Classical Darwinism

New species arise from natural selection acting over vast periods of time

Neo-Darwinism

Theory that proposes evolutionary changes occur really quickly

Punctuated evolution

Similarly in structuring between different organisms

Homology

Naturalistic evolution, and insistence that science must assume that the cosmos is a closed system of material causes and effects, which can never be influenced by anything outside of material nature

Darwinism evolution