Scientists

The term ' creation scientist ' is somewhat of a misnomer in that the two words seem to contradict one another. However, there are scientists/researchers that will readily admit that their findings, both geological and archaelogical can be directly paralleled to the teachings of the Bible. For instance, we are taught that God created the first generations of all living things. The fossil record seems to confirm this. For a long time [ a geological moment] there was absolutely nothing on the earth. Then suddenly there was an abundance of life, plants, insects, animals and dinosaurs. We are also taught that a great worldwide flood destroyed the earth and that it was ' ..without form and void' of life. Again, the fossil records clearly indicates that such an event did actually occur. So certainly, there can be a sort of coexistence between science and creation.

The word 'secular' can be defined as 'not specifically religious'. Secular science is basic General Science without a religious influence. In much the same way that secular music is not necessarily religious music, secular science is not a religious discipline in that it does not involve, and is not bound by any monastic views or principles. Answer

A creation scientist would be a scientist that believes that something created the universe, while a secular scientist would probably not believe that, but would say that everything occurred by chance or natural processes.

Both scientists can still be "genuine" and relatively objective, but are looking at the problems from differing points of view. Both types of scientists, and indeed all people, have their own separate ways of looking at the world.

Science, n. Investigation of natural phenomena.

Engineering, n. Domestication of natural phenomena.

Technology, n. Domesticated natural phenomena.

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"Creation scientists" have no concern about natural phenomena, just the supernatural phenomena described in the Bible. They aren't scientists.

Expertise on corals and coral reefs represents the scientific contribution of Dorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS [September 10, 1907-April 23, 1997]. Dr. Hill was the first female University professor and the only female president of the Australian Academy of Science.

Those honors were accorded her for her solid training and research in geology. Specifically, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England. Her dissertation dealt with a topic in the corals of Scotland. Before returning to Australia, she came up with the standard, systematized descriptions regarding certain corals. Back home, she mapped the limestone corals for every part of the continent country except for South Australia. Her work became the worldwide standard.

The Periodic table's symbol for silver is Ag and Argentum is also Latin for 'Payment' (I believe)... The root of the Latin word argentum is argent, meaning money. This meaning holds true today in the French language, as it did in Middle English and Old French linguistic periods. To frame the aforementioned time periods, most reference sources date the origin and use of the word argent to anywhere between 1450 - 1485. It is easier to trace the etymologies (word origins) of words if you can break a word down into its parts--usually consisting of one root/stem and a suffix, the latter of which denotes, amongst other characteristics, tense, plurality, possession and, as is true of the Romance, or Latin based languages, gender; virtues all dependent upon the structure of the suffix. Thus, argent may further be broken down into its constituents, which yields the root arg-, meaning white, to shine; silver. The suffix -ent, presumably, is a derivation of one or more principal suffixes, namely -en and -ence/-ency, meaning made of and quality, respectively. What we're left with is a substance made of silver or having the quality of shine.

It should be noted that the stem arg-, all its connoted meaning, and very possibly its inherent meaning, as would suggest the following, is the same in Greek, Armenian, Old Persian, Middle and Old French, Latin, as well as Sanskrit.

Gregor Mendel, a priest from a monastery in Central Europe. He entered the University of Vienna in 1851. He also taught at a nearby high school. While studying pea plants, he developed the punnet square, accurately predicting what traits the offspring will acquire from the parents, generation to generation. Gregor Mendel was considered as the father of genetics because he was the first one to understand how genetic inheritance worked.

However he had no mechanism for genetic inheritance as neither chromosomes nor DNA had been discovered. All he had was a predictable reproducible phenomenon. It took the work of others to discover these mechanisms that produce the phenomenon Gregor Mendel studied.