| Scopes Trial in 1925 | Famous trial involving lawyer Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan |
| SETI | Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence |
| Speciation | Development of new species; it leads to a loss of information, not the gain of information required by evolution. |
| Stanley Miller | Scientist who conducted famous 1953 experiment, passing electric current through mixture of gases, producing organic compounds. |
| Theistic evolution | God directed evolutionary process of millions of years; merges Genesis account and concept of millions of years of evolution. |
| Theropod dinosaurs | Lizard-hipped, bipedal dinosaurs |
| Tohu | Hebrew word “formless”, from Genesis 1:2 |
| Uniformitarianism | Belief that rates today are the same as they were in the past, without possibility of major catastrophes like worldwide floods. |
| Universal constants | Parameters in laws of physics setting strengths of fundamental forces (e.g. gravity), and masses of fundamental particles (e.g. atoms); vital for life. |
| Venus Flytrap | Plant that uses complex mecahnism to snap two of its lobes on any unsuspecting fly that ventures inside |
| Willard Libby | Founder of the carbon-14 dating method |
| William Paley | Wrote in 1802 classic book Natural Theology; design in nature attributed to a designer (God) with “red in tooth and claw” as part of original design. |
| Woolly mammoths | Thousands of carcasses scattered across Alaska and Siberia resting above Flood deposits. |
| Yom | Hebrew word for “day” (24 hours) |
| Young-earth creationists | Christians including scientists who hold traditional view that is faithful to Scripture and fits scientific evidence better than old-earth evolutionary theory. |
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