History of Evolutionary Thought
Modern Evolutionary Thought
Creation vs. Evolution
Miscellaneous
Grab-Bag
100
Between two different kinds of organisms, what are physical features with the same anatomical structure?
Homologous structures
100
Who wrote the Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
100
What is a group of organisms that God created as distinct from other groups of animals?
Kind
100
Who was one of the first scientists to notice that certain cliffs must of been the result of secondary processes?
James Hutton
100
What are organisms that supposedly have characteristics similar to modern man?
Hominids
200
Who proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics?
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
200
According to evolutionists, what were the first organisms to form?
Prokaryotic cells
200
Which view says that the days of Creation are analogies are analogies (not 24-hour days)?
Analogical day view
200
What are certain fossils of accepted ages?
Index fossils
200
What is the idea that all living things came from a common ancestor?
Descent with modification
300
What did Thomas Malthus believe?
That there was a struggle for survival among humans whenever resources are scarce
300
What is panspermia?
The idea that life didn't form on earth but rather came from earth from somewhere else
300
Which theory says that the days of Genesis 1 are not are not 24-hour days but long periods of time?
Day-age theory
300
What concrete, no-doubt results did Stanley Miller and Harold Urey's experiment yield?
NONE
300
How many transitional forms have we found?
ZERO
400
What's punctuated equilibrium?
The idea that evolution can happen relatively short bursts interspersed by quick periods of change
400
What is mutation synthesis?
Added mutations as the engine of change to explain how natural selection chose which organisms were most fit to reproduce
400
What's the main idea of the Gap theory?
There is a huge period of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2
400
What is significant about Hugo de Vries?
He noted that new varieties in organisms could be the result of mutation
400
What is speciation?
The formation of new varieties of related organisms
500
What is abiogenesis? How was it disproved by Louis Pasteur?
Abiogenesis - the possibility of life arising from nonlife
Louis Pasteur disproved abiogenesis by putting microorganisms in a solution in an airtight flask. He heated the flask to kill the microorganisms. No new microorganisms were found in the flask
500
Explain why mutations most likely didn't cause evolution?
Mutations, with very few exceptions) do not cause evolution. Speciation requires a gain of genetic information, which is something that does not happen with mutations. Over millions of years, there would be enough mutations to render life impossible
500
What was created during the seven days of Creation?
Day 1 - space, day, and night
Day 2 - atmosphere
Day 3 - seas and land
Day 4 - sun, moon, stars, and planets
Day 5 - sea and flying creatures
Day 6 - land animals and humans
Day 7 - rest
500
Explain how the Christian view of evolution is different than the secular view of evolution.
Christian view of evolution: evolution does exist, but just variation of species, not the formation of new species
Secular view of evolution: mutations allowed for complex life to originate from simple organisms
500
What is the difference between behavioral ecology and ethology?
Behavioral ecology - the ethology of an animal as it relates specifically to evolution
Ethology - the behavior of animals