Conflicting Views
This geologist popularized the theory of uniformitarianism.
The preserved remains of plants, animals, or humans in sedimentary rock.
What are fossils?
In scientific classification, man is classified in this order.
What is primate?
Another name for a transitional form.
The longest time division into which evolutionists divide geologic time.
What is an eon?
This view of earth's geologic history can be summed up with the slogan, "The present is the key to the past."
What is uniformitarianism?
The study of fossils
What is paleontology?
The worn tooth used to construct the supposed "missing link," Nebraska Man, was eventually determined to have come from this.
What is a wild pig or peccary?
The sudden appearance of life in the fossil record is referred to as this.
What is the Cambrian explosion?
The belief that God called the universe into existence out of nothing.
What is special creation?
This idea attempts to blend the Bible and evolution.
What is theistic evolution?
The hypothetical time scale that supposedly charts both the earth's history and the sequence of rock layers in the earth's crust.
What is the geologic column?
The fossil skull of this supposed missing link was eventually determined to be constructed of a human skull and chimp jaw.
What is "Piltdown Man?"
In 1938, a live one of these was caught at the mouth of the Chalumna River.
What is organic material?
This scientist suggested that many catastrophes have shaped the Earth's geologic features.
Who is George Cuvier?
These fossils form when animals and plants are rapidly buried by water and sediments; over, time minerals in the mud replace the organism's hard structures.
What are petrified fossils?
This most famous Australopithecine was constructed using a human knee joint found over 2 km away.
Who is Lucy?
The supposed "missing link" between fish and tetrapods.
What is the tiktaalik?
Location on the earth's crust where the geologic column is found in its entirety.
What is nowhere?
Fossils that extend through several strata.
What are polystrate fossils?
Ramapithecus was thought to be man-like because of this piece of evidence.
What are smaller teeth?
Considered the "missing link" between amphibians and reptiles.
What is the Seymouria?
The gap formed when continuous strata are missing one or more layers.
What is an unconformity?