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7 Sci Test 4 Ch 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aristotle | conisdered the most important authority on science during the Middle Ages |
| Bible | foundation of modern science |
| chemical evolution | new "scientific" spontaneous generation |
| creation | belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God |
| Cuvier | fofunded comparative anatomy |
| Darwin | author of Origin of Species and Descent of Man |
| embryonic recapitulation | idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors |
| evolution | rock pocket nice are NOT an example of _____________ because no new types of organisms were formed |
| gradulatism | belief that evolution occurs slowly |
| Harvey | discovered blood circulation |
| homology | basic similarity of structure between two different living things |
| horse | supposed ancestors of this animal are Equus and Hyracotherium |
| intelligent | information must have an _____________ cause |
| kinds | term that refers to originally created types of organisms |
| law of biogenesis | scientific concept that states living things can originate only from existing living thigns |
| Lyell | wrote Principles of Geology |
| materialism | belief that everything is material |
| mutation | sudden, permanent, random change in an organism's DNA |
| natural selection | Darwin proposed the idea that evolution occurs through this _____________ _____________. |
| nature | God's general revelation |
| orchard view | view of life consistent with both the Bible and observations |
| organisms | Mutations cannot cause evolution because they do produce news kinds of _________________. |
| Paley | wrote Natural Theology |
| Pasteur | used broth and flasks to disprove spontaneous generation |
| Protestant Reformation | birth of modern science |
| punctuated equilibrium | idea that says evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time |
| reasoning God | founders of modern science believed that true faith is a reasonable belief in a ______________ _____. |
| speciation | formation of new organisms within a "kind" |
| specified complexity | idea that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance |
| spontaneous generation | old Greek idea that says that living things come from nonliving things |
| technology | science put to practical use |
| transitional form | an intermediate organism linking types of living things |
| uniformitarianism | materialistic idea that says the present is the key to the past |
| Vesalius | Father of Anatomy |
| vestigial organs | "useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development |
| worldview | term used to refer to a person's outlook about life and the world |
| yolk sacs | three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution, but actually provide evidence for creation are pharyngeal arches, tails and ________ ______. |
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