The fossil record
The preserved remains of an organism
What is a fossil?
This is an organism that supposedly gave rise to two or more different types of organisms.
What is a common ancestor?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The day of creation on which man was created
These are the hypothetical "in-between" organisms that supposedly show how one organism evolved into another.
Creationists believe that the majority of fossils formed during this event.
What is the Genesis Flood?
He published "The Origin of Species," in 1859, to introduce his theories of natural selection and descent with modification.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This structure is like a factory wall, protecting the cell's insides and controlling what enters and exits.
What is a cell membrane?
Creationists estimate the age of the earth by using these lists of family histories in the Bible.
What are genealogies?
The organism Darwin is best known for studying on the Galapagos Islands.
What are finches?
Evolutionists claim that fossils lineup with these charts that show the path of biological evolution.
What is an evolutionary family tree?
He was the first to propose the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics and used giraffes to support his theory.
Who is Jean Baptise Lamarck?
This is the movement of substances through a membrane without the use of the cell's energy.
The term for someone who studies nature
What is a naturalist?
These are absent from the fossil record because they never existed.
What are missing links or common ancestors?
This is a structure that evolutionists believe no longer has a major function but are remnants of the evolutionary process.
What are vestigial structures?
When some molecules can pass through the membrane but other molecules cannot.
What is selective permeability?
Ex Nihilo means that God created everything from this.
What is nothing?
This is term describes the idea that individuals with traits that allow them to win the competition to survive will pass on their traits to their offspring.
What is survival of the fittest?
Mrs. Hannay showed an example of one of these preserved in a mine, which demonstrates that fossils can be formed rather quickly.
What is a felt hat?
This fossil is supposedly the missing link between birds and reptiles.
These organelles look like bubbles and serve as storage containers in the cytoplasm of some cells.
What are vacuoles?
This is the day on which God created the sun, moon and stars.
What is Day 4?
The two parts used to create a scientific name.
What are the genus and species?