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The belief that only the natural world exists

materialism

100

This event began the birth of modern science

Protestant Reformation

100

Pakicetus is the supposed ancestor of this modern animal

whale

100

This English physician discovered blood circulation

William Harvey

100

This is a term for science put to practical use

technology

200

The view of life that teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species

orchard view

200

This is the foundation of modern science

biblical principles

200

This book proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection

Descent of Man

200

This scientific organization, founded in 1666, was supported by Huguenots and Jansenists

French Academy of Sciences

200

This is the study of the similarities and differences in organisms' body structures

comparative anatomy

300

This term refers to an originally created type of organism

kind

300

This false idea says that the present is the key to the past

uniformitarianism

300

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

300

This person proposed the mutation hypothesis, which states that evolution occurs through a combination of mutations and natural selection

Hugh de Vries

300

The idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors is embryonic __________

recapitulation

400

This term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him

worldview

400

The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God

creation

400

This person proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection

Charles Darwin

400

Formation of new organisms within a kind 

speciation

500

These are the 'useless' organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development

vestigial organs

500

This person wrote Principles of Geology

Charles Lyell

500

This term refers to a sudden, permanent, random change in an organism's DNA

mutation

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