| Melanin | Major pigment that produces our skin color: eumelanin (brown to black) and pheomelanin (red to yellow). |
| Merism | Figure of speech where two opposites are combined into an all-encompassing single concept |
| Missing links | Transitional forms from one kind of life-form into another kind which are not found in the fossil record |
| Moraines | Stones, boulders, and debris that have been carried and dropped by a glacier |
| Naturalism | Belief that nature is “all that there is.” |
| Natural selection | Observable process said to be the underlying mechanism of unobservable molecules-to-man evolution |
| Natural selection is nondirectional | If the environment changes or the selective pressure be removed, some organisms are less able to deal with the changes. |
| Nephesh | Hebrew word for aspect of life attributed only to animals and humans; translated “breathing" or “living creature” (Gen 1:20–21, 24). |
| Plates | Mosaic of rigid blocks dividing globally the earth’s surface by past geologic processes |
| Plate tectonics | Study of the movements and interactions among these plates |
| Progressive creation | God intervened in the processes of death and struggle to create millions of species at various times over millions of years. |
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