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Origins Of Universe Flashcards

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Creation

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Implying the universe was deliberately crested by something or someone eg God

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Ex nihilo

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From nothing

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Creation science

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Claims to offer scientific explanations for certain literalist and innerant interpretations of the bible

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Young earth theory

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The world is only 6-10000 years old based on biblical genealogies

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Old earth theory

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The earth and universe is roughly 13.7 billlion years old

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Genesis

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First book in the bible where the creation stories are expressed in chapters 1 and 2

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Literalist Christian

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Christian who takes the word of the bible as literally true

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Progressive Christian

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Christians who take the word of the bible not as literal and factually but as a guide from god

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Inerrant

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Incapable of being wrong

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Infallible

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Incapable of making mistakes

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Materialist

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Someone who only accepts the material/scientific world and rejects any supernatural beings being behind it

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Divine

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Of/like God

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Divine revelation

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Message or idea given to humans from god eg bible

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Big Bang theory

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Current model of best fit on how the world began

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Expansion

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How the world expanded in the bbt model

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Singularity

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Word used from the point from which the universe expanded

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Infinitely dense

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Way to describe the singularity as it contained all the matter that made the universe

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Red shift

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Light waves observed by Hubble that the universe was still expanding in all directions from an initial point

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Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMBR)

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The echo of the bb detected by Arno and Penzias in the 60s

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The relative abundance of elements

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Key evidence for the Big Bang

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