Chapter 1

God made humans to subdue the earth and to have dominion over it.

Is any kind of information or observation used in an investigation

Is an assumption that a person makes about the world that helps him to investigate the world and understand it from a certain point of view.

Is an inclination one has about an idea after thinking about its pros and cons.

Is like a bias, but a person holds to it without thinking about it, and it is often unreasonable.

which in philosophical or religious matters means “of the world,” or “not sacred.”

is about people creating workable explanations or descriptions for the things and processes that we see in the world around us.

Is a workable explanation or description.

Is anything observable or measureable.

An accepted model that explains something

A model that describes a phenomenon but doesn’t or can’t explain it

examines phenomena that exist or occur in the present.

phenomena that happened in the unobserved past and that are not happening today (to our knowledge)

A scientist calls his initial model to explain the phenomenon that he is studying a hypothesis.

The scientific process that a scientist actually uses depends on what he wants to study.

includes two main branches of science—physics and chemistry.

deals with how matter and energy interact.

Is the study of the composition of substances and how they act in the presence of other substances

Is examining the bones of dinosaurs and evidence of a large meteor hit to the Earth millions of years ago to formulate an explanation of how dinosaurs became extinct from the planet.