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