B
What is the belief that only the natural world exists?
Materialism
What are the “useless” organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development?
Vestigial organs
What book proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection?
Descent of Man
The study of similarities and differences in organism’s body structure is called
comparative anatomy
What is the idea that evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time?
Which event began the birth of modern science?
Protestant Reformation
What modern animal is Pakicetus a supposed ancestor of?
Whale
Formation of new organisms within a kind is called
speciation
The idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors is embryonic
recapitulation
What term refers to the idea of studying science, especially as it relates to the origins of the universe and of life, based on faith in God as Creator?
Creation science
Which view of life teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species?
Orchard view
What is the foundation of modern science? (HINT: Think of the book of Job and how it discussed the water cycle long before it was discovered!)
Biblical principles
Science put to practical use is
technology
What idea states that a type of organism that survives better than another type of organism will be predominant?
natural selection
What term refers to sudden, permanent, random change in an organisms’ DNA?
mutation
What term refers to a person’s foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him?
Worldview
What false idea says that the present is the key to the past?
Uniformitarianism
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God is
creationism
Who proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection?
Charles Darwin
Many evolutionists have performed experiments to try to produce living things from common chemicals. All of these experiments have failed. What evolutionary idea are these experiments trying to prove?
abiogenesis
What term refers to an originally created type of organism?
kind
What English physician discovered blood circulation?
William Harvey
Three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution but actually provide evidence for creation are the pharyngeal arches, “tail”, and
yolk sac
What is the term for the old Greek idea that says living things come from nonliving things?
spontaneous generation
According to Psalm 19:1-6, the sun, moon, and stars teach God’s glory in a language that all people can understand. Which term describes how these heavenly bodies proclaim truth about God?
general revelation