Bad Ideas
Bad Ideas #2
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History
Creationism
Terms
People
People #2
Ideas
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belief that only the natural world exists
materialism
100
basic similarity of structure
homology
200
"useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development
vestigial organs
200
old Greek idea that says living things come from nonliving things
spontaneous generation
200
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Australopithecus is supposedly an intermediate organism linking humans to apes. Because of this, Australopithecus is considered by evolutionists to be a ____________________________ between humans and apes
transitional form
200
event that led to the beginning of modern science
Protestant Reformation
200
belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God
creation (creationism)
200
science put to practical use
technology
200
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German professor from Tubington who wrote The Natural History of Plants
Leonhard Fuchs
200
proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection
Charles Darwin
200
study of the similarities and differences in organisms' body structures
comparative anatomy
300
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idea that the present is the key to the past
uniformitarianism
300
diagram that shows the presumed evolutionary relationships between all living and extinct organisms
tree of life
300
Hyracotherium/Eohippus is a supposed evolutionary ancestor of the modern ___________________
horse
300
"True faith is a reasonable belief in a reasoning God."
Is this statement ^ something that one of the founders of modern science would agree with?
Yes
300
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formation of new organisms within a kind
speciation (microevolution)
300
sudden, permanent, random change in an organism's DNA
mutation
300
Roman statesman who wrote about evidence of design in the universe
Cicero
300
English physician who discovered and studied blood circulation
William Harvey
300
idea that one type of organism better suited to survive in its particular environment than another organism will become predominant
natural selection
400
book which proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection
Descent of Man
400
Pakicetus is supposedly an ancestor of modern __________
whales
400
trying to create life out of nonliving chemicals would be trying to prove __________________
abiogenesis (a modern spontaneous generation)
400
the foundation of modern science is based upon ________________
biblical principles
400
view of life that teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created kinds
orchard view
400
God revealed in nature
general revelation
400
wrote about human anatomy in Fabrica
Andreas Vesalius
400
described plants used for medicinal purposes in Living Pictures of Herbs
Otto Brunfels
400
term that refers to the idea of studying science, especially as it relates to the origins of the universe and life, based on faith in God as Creator
Creation science
500
Hugo de Vries proposed the mutation hypothesis, which states that evolution occurs through a combination of mutations and _____________.
natural selection
500
the idea that evolution occurs slowly
gradualism
500
the idea of a fish becoming an amphibian within a few thousand years would be an example of
punctuated equilibrium
500
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Because DNA contains information, DNA must come from ______________________.
an intelligent Creator
500
refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him
worldview
500
wrote Principles of Geology
Charles Lyell
500
British theologian who wrote Natural Theology
William Paley
500
the idea that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance is called ____________________________
specified complexity
600
the idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors
embryonic recapitulation
600
idea that evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time
punctuated equilibrium
600
Mutations cannot cause evolution because they do not produce new _______ of organisms.
kinds
600
scientific organization founded in 1666 which was supported by Huguenots and Jansenists
French Academy of Sciences
600
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three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution but actually provide evidence for creation are 1. 2. 3.
1. pharyngeal arches
2. "tail"
3. "yolk sac"
600
an originally created organism
kind
600
French zoologist who founded the study of comparative anatomy
Georges Cuvier
600
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helped found the Philosophical College and a leading member of the Royal Society
John Wilkins
600
Creationists and evolutionists often look at the same data using the same observations and come to very different conclusions. This is because they have different _____________________.
worldviews