BJU Life science chapter 1
experiment - ✔️✔️a situation or process designed and controlled by a person for the
purpose of gaining data about a particular problem
3 teachings in Christian world view - ✔️✔️1. God made the world.
2. The world is fallen and cursed because of sin.
3. God is working to redeem the world.
observation - ✔️✔️information that a person has gained by using one or more of his
five senses-sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste
inference - ✔️✔️a logical conclusion based on available information from observations.
presupposition - ✔️✔️an idea a person takes for granted; something a person assumes
to be true without having convincing proof of it
bias - ✔️✔️A person's preconceived ideas or inclinations about a topic; what someone
wants to believe.
worldview - ✔️✔️the perspective from which a person sees and interprets the world
universal statement - ✔️✔️a statement that excludes everything example " all cats
have wiskers"
value judgment - ✔️✔️a determination of the worth of something. Example "This is a
beautiful dress"
science - ✔️✔️the knowledge humans gained from the careful, systematic investigation
of the natural world
scientism - ✔️✔️the belief that scientific observation is the only way to learn about the
world and that science can yield answers in all fields of study
Christian worldview - ✔️✔️the beliefs that the Bible is the Word of God and that it is the
only completely reliable thing in this world
Creation (or Dominion) Mandate - ✔️✔️the charge that God gave to humans in
Genesis 1:28 to exercise dominion, or stewardship, over the earth
name the animals - ✔️✔️What scientific task did Adam do?
experiment - ✔️✔️a situation or process designed and controlled by a person for the
purpose of gaining data about a particular problem
3 teachings in Christian world view - ✔️✔️1. God made the world.
2. The world is fallen and cursed because of sin.
3. God is working to redeem the world.
observation - ✔️✔️information that a person has gained by using one or more of his
five senses-sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste
inference - ✔️✔️a logical conclusion based on available information from observations.
presupposition - ✔️✔️an idea a person takes for granted; something a person assumes
to be true without having convincing proof of it
bias - ✔️✔️A person's preconceived ideas or inclinations about a topic; what someone
wants to believe.
worldview - ✔️✔️the perspective from which a person sees and interprets the world
universal statement - ✔️✔️a statement that excludes everything example " all cats
have wiskers"
value judgment - ✔️✔️a determination of the worth of something. Example "This is a
beautiful dress"
science - ✔️✔️the knowledge humans gained from the careful, systematic investigation
of the natural world
scientism - ✔️✔️the belief that scientific observation is the only way to learn about the
world and that science can yield answers in all fields of study
Christian worldview - ✔️✔️the beliefs that the Bible is the Word of God and that it is the
only completely reliable thing in this world
Creation (or Dominion) Mandate - ✔️✔️the charge that God gave to humans in
Genesis 1:28 to exercise dominion, or stewardship, over the earth
name the animals - ✔️✔️What scientific task did Adam do?
