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Cicero
Puritan clergyman involved in the formation of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
John Wilkins
Idea that a type of organism that is better able to survive in its environment than another type of organism will survive and become predominant.
natural selection
Sudden, permanent, random changes in an organism's DNA.
mutation
Idea of studying science, especially as it relates to the origins of the universe and of life, based on faith in God as a Creator.
creation science
Founder of comparative anatomy
Georges Cuvier
Lawyer and geologist whose work greatly influenced Darwin's idea
Charles Lyell
What did people worship in the Middle Ages?
nature
God's revelation of Himself through creation
General Revelation
An originally created type of organism
kind
Protestant pastor who wrote the first botanical work to use illustrations based on actual plants
Otto Brunfels
How does homology provide evidence of a Designer?
Similar structure in different organisms suggests that they were all designed by the same Designer.
Another term for evolution, unbiblical idea that the universe, including all life, is the result of natural processes and that all life has a common ancestor.
Macroevolution
Why did people fear nature in the Middle Ages?
What was the faith upon which Darwin based his work?
uniformitarianism or materialism
Father of Anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
Change within a particular kind of organism caused by variations in the gene pool
Speciation
How do rock pocket mice demonstrates natural selection?
The mouse coat color that matches the color of the ground in an area is more common in that area.
An evolutionary view, with man and all organism descended from a single common ancestor.
The incorrect idea that all species were created as they are now with no changes within a kind
"lawn view"
English physician who discovered blood circulation
William Harvey
Two books in which Darwin explained his evolutionary ideas
Origin of Species and Descent of Man
Two supposed whale ancestors discussed in the text
Three features in human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution
The view that all organisms are descended from the original kinds with changes within a kind but no changes between kinds