Terminology
The belief that only the natural world exists
materialism
This event began the birth of modern science
Protestant Reformation
Pakicetus is the supposed ancestor of this modern animal
whale
This English physician discovered blood circulation
William Harvey
This is a term for science put to practical use
technology
This French zoologist founded the study of comparative anatomy
Georges Cuvier
This Roman statesman wrote about evidence of design in the universe
Cicero
This is the basic similarity of structure between two different living things, like the similar forelimbs of most vertebrates
Homology
The view of life that teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species
orchard view
This is the foundation of modern science
biblical principles
This book proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection
Descent of Man
This scientific organization, founded in 1666, was supported by Huguenots and Jansenists
French Academy of Sciences
This is the study of the similarities and differences in organisms' body structures
comparative anatomy
This German professor from Tubingen wrote The Natural History of Plants
Leonhard Fuchs
This British theologian wrote Natural
William Paley
This statement states why rock pocket mice are not an example of evolution
No new types of organisms were formed.
This term refers to an originally created type of organism
kind
This false idea says that the present is the key to the past
uniformitarianism
Three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution but actually provide evidence for creation are the pharyngeal arches, "tail" and "this"
yolk sac
This person proposed the mutation hypothesis, which states that evolution occurs through a combination of mutations and natural selection
Hugh de Vries
The idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors is embryonic __________
recapitulation
This person wrote Principles of Geology
Charles Lyell
This is the belief that evolution occurs slowly
Gradualism
This reason explains why both creationists and evolutionists have the same scientific observations and data yet come to different conclusions about that data.
Creationists and evolutionists have different worldviews
This term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him
worldview
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God
creation
This evolutionary idea states a fish becomes an amphibian within a few thousand years
Punctuated equilibrium
This person proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection
Charles Darwin
Formation of new organisms within a kind
speciation
This person described plants used for medicinal purposes in Living Pictures of Herbs
Otto Brunfels
Hyacotherium/Eohippus is a supposed evolutionary ancestor of this modern animal
horse
This statement best explains why mutations cannot cause evolution
Mutations do not produce new kinds of organisms
These are the 'useless' organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development
vestigial organs
According to Psalm 19, the sun, moon, and stars teach God’s glory in a language everyone understands. This term describes how these heavenly bodies proclaim the truth about God.
General revelation
Many evolutionists have performed experiments to produce living things from common chemicals. All of these experiments have failed. These experiments are trying to prove this evolutionary idea.
Abiogenesis
This person wrote Principles of Geology
Charles Lyell
This term refers to a sudden, permanent, random change in an organism's DNA
mutation
This person helped found the Philosophical College and a leading member of the Royal Society
John Wilkins
The idea that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance is known as this.
Specified complexity
DNA information must come from an intelligent Creator based on this statement alone.
All organisms contain information stored in the DNA