Question | Answer |
The foundation of modern science is | the Bible |
Why mutations cannot cause evolution? | mutations do not produce new kinds of organisms |
Nature is God's | general revelation |
What is the belief that everything is material? | materialism |
Which event began the birth of modern science? | Protestant Reformation |
Which view of life is consistent with both the Bible and observations? | orchard view |
What term is used to refer to a person's outlook about life and the world? | worldview |
Most of the founders of modern science believed that? | true faith is a reasonable belief in a reasoning God |
The materialistic idea that says the present is the key to the past? | uniformitarianism |
Why are rock pocket mice not an example of evolution? | No new types of organisms were formed |
What term refers to originally created types of organisms? | kinds |
What scientific concept states that living things can originate only from existing living things? | law of biogenesis |
What term refers to "useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development? | vestigial organs |
Three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution but actually provide evidence for creation are pharyngeal arches, yolk sacs and? | tails |
The man who wrote Principles of Geology was? | Lyell |
The man who founded comparative anatomy was? | Cuvier |
Formation of new organisms within a "kind" is called? | speciation |
Science put to practical use is | technology |
One of the well-known books written by Charles Darwin was? | Origin of Species or Descent of Man |
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God is? | creation |
The old Greek idea that says that living things come from nonliving things is | spontaneous generation |
The man who discovered blood circulation was | William Harvey |
The man who used broth and flasks to disprove spontaneous generation was | Pasteur |
The "Father of Anatomy" was | Vesalius |
The man who proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection was? | Charles Darwin |
The idea of this says that evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time? | punctuated equilibrium |
Two supposed horse ancestors that are now known to have been land animals are? | Equus and Hyracotherium |
Who was considered the most important authority on science during the Middle Ages? | Aristotle |
the idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors | embryonic recapitulation |
A new, "scientific" spontaneous generation | chemical evolution |
the idea that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance | specified complexity |
an intermediate organism linking types of living things | transitional form |
a basic similarity of structure between two different living things | homology |
a sudden, permanent, random change in an organisms' DNA | mutation |
the belief that evolution occurs slowly | gradualism |
The study of the similarities and differences in the body structure of organisms | comparative anatomy |
The similar five-fingered or five-toed forelimbs of many vertebrate animals is an example of? | homology |
The British philosopher known for saying that the purpose, order and design seen in the world are evidence of a Designer (God) was? | Paley |
The idea of comparative anatomy was developed by? | Cuvier |
This means that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance | Specified Complexity |
These cannot produce new organisms because they destroy information? | mutations |
This is not evolution because it does not produce new information in the DNA | natural selection |
performed spontaneous generation experiments with flies | Redi |
wrote Origin of Species | Darwin |
believed that natural selection brought about the evolution of living things | Darwin |
Father of Anatomy | Vesalius |
studied blood circulation | Harvey |
performed spontaneous generation experiments with bacteria | Pasteur |
This type of revelation teaches who God is through His creation | general |
There was an increase in scientific discovery in the 16th century due in part to the? | Protestant Reformation |
What is science put to practical use? | technology |
Lyell's false belief of this states that the present is the only key to the past | uniformitarianism |
The belief that evolution occurs by slow and gradual change is called | gradualism |
The fictitious branching diagram that supposedly shows evolutionary relationships between organisms is the? | tree of life |
"Useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolution are called? | vestigial organs |
Hyracotherium is the supposed evolutionary ancestor of modern | horses |
Pakicetus is a supposed evolutionary ancestor of modern? | Whales |
The idea that says that evolution occurs in short periods of rapid change is? | punctuated equilibrium |
The German biologist who popularized the idea of embryonic recapitulation was? | Haeckel |
The process that is a new, "scientific" version of spontaneous generation is? | chemical evolution |