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SSFT MidtermGenome - answer Consists of all DNA of a species
Human Genome Project - answer Decade-long effort to map the 3 billion letter human
DNA sequence
Venter, Craig - answer One of the first to sequences the human genome. He would also
attempt to file patents on the genes and store them in a subscription database
Dawkins, Richard - answer Evolutionary biologist who claims evolution demands
atheism, and that faith is a vice because it isn't based on any evidence
Morris, Henry - answer A young earth creationist who believes evolution is responsible
for chaotic morals, social disintegrations, and lethal political developments
Gould, Stephen Jay - answer Widely outspoken evolutionary biologist who believes
science and faith should occupy separate non-overlapping magisterial
Non-overlapping Magisterial (NOMA) - answer Advocated by Gould, this is the idea that
science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry, that each only has one
magisterium (domain of teaching authority)
Agnostic - answerCoing by Thomas Huxley, it means someone who simply doesn't
know whether or not a god exists or what that god is like it if does exist
Huxley, Thomas - answerCoined the term "agnostic." Considered "Darwin's Bulldog,"
you can't hold both Darwinism and Biblical literalism
Einstein, Albert - answerDespite strong Zionist position after WWII, he didn't believe in
Yahweh. Instead, he found himself believing in a deist god. Therefore, Collins thought
belief in God was intellectual suicide
Altruism - answerThe truly selfless giving of oneself without secondary motives (agape).
The Moral Law could be reduced down to this in many ways
Selection Pressure - answerAny factor which decreases reproductive success
Wilson, E. O. - answerSociobiologist that attempted to explain altruism in terms of
reproductive benefits, but all arguments have run into trouble
, Deism - answerThe idea that God created the universe and set it in motion, but has
since been completely uninvolved with Creation
Atheism - answerStrong doubt that a god or gods exist
Behe, Michael - answerWrote Darwin's Black Box, which discussed irreducible
complexity and the bombardier beetle. He doesn't do a good job advocating either
creationism or evolution
White, A. D. - answerFounder and first president of Cornell University, wrote A History
of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, and talked about hostility that
religion has shown toward science
Scholasticism - answerExtending knowledge by inference and conceptual analysis
Sagan, Carl - answerBelieved that the mind needed to be freed from the fetters of faith
through science
Science - answerA method utilized in organized efforts to formulate explanations of
nature, always subject to modifications and corrections through systematic observations
(theory and research)
Technology - answerTools used to complete a task - doesn't necessarily imply that a
society with technology also has science
Theory - answerAbstract statements about why and how some portion of nature fits
together and works
Empirical - answerData that comes from experiences via the senses
Objective - answerSomething that exists outside perception
Subjective - answerSomething that is open to interpretation
Copernicus, Nicolaus - answerTheorized a heliocentric solar system, most of which was
false and didn't explain why the planets orbited the way they do. Considered a
necessary starting point of modern astronomy
Newton, Isaac - answerEstablished the first scientific theory of the solar system
Aristotle - answerWhile praised for his empiricism, his theorizing was abstract and false.
Taught that an object's free-fall speed is proportionate to its weight, and the path of a
projectile is caused by the air behind it pushing it
Alchemy - answerA non-scientific precursor to modern chemistry
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