Bible Doctrine

Worldview

hypothesis about ultimate reality

prime reality

thing from which everything else comes

deism

God made the world but does not intervene in it

presupposition

something you assume to be true

pantheism

the force and stuff of nature are god

theism

a personal God created the world and acts in it

dualism

there are two ultimate forces in the universe, God and matter

cosmology

the science of the origin and development of the universe

materialism

matter and energy are everything and have existed forever

big bang

the universe’s beginning

creatio ex nihilo

creation out of nothing physical

singularity

point where space and time didn’t exist

fine-tuning

every physical parameter set just right to make the galaxies and stars possible

anthropic fine-tuning evidences

fine-tuned for human life

biological evolution

how you get from simple life forms to complex

chemical evolution

how you get from chemicals to the first organism

sequence specificity

function dependent on arrangement of the parts

self organization

molecular forces of attraction create the digital code

irreducible complexity

any system of interacting parts in which the removal of any one part destrorys the function of the entire system

junk DNA

DNA sections do not direct the building of porteins

Encode project

search for function performed by non-coding DNA

Hubble

discovered the expanding universe

Watson and Crick

discovered DNA structure

materialism

atheism

Darwin’s Black Box

“irreducibly complex” machinery in the cell.