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The belief that only the natural world exists.
What is materialism?
Useless organs that are supposedly leftover from earlier stages of evolutionary development.
What are vestigial organs?
The book that proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection.
What is the Descent Of Man?
This was proposed by Hugo de Vries and states that evolution occurs through a combination of mutations and natural selection.
What is the mutation hypothesis?
This is the term for the old Greek idea that says living things come from nonliving things.
What is Spontaneous generation?
Events that began the birth of modern science.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
A modern animal that Pakicetus is a supposed ancestor of.
What is a whale?
The formation of new organisms within a kind.
What is speciation?
The study of the similarities and differences in organisms' body structures.
What is comparative anatomy?
This is the idea that evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
View of life teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species.
What is the orchard view?
The foundation of modern science.
What are biblical principles?
Science put to practical use.
What is technology?
The idea that at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors.
What is embryonic recapitulation?
This 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.
What is creation science?
Refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him.
What is worldview?
The false idea that says that the present is the key to the past.
What is Uniformitarianism?
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God.
What is Creation?
The idea that states that a type of organism that survives better than another type of organism will become predominant.
What is natural selection?
This term refers to a sudden, per minute, random change in an organism's DNA.
What is mutation?
The term that refers to an originally created type of organism.
What is kind?
The scientific organization founded in 1666 that was supported by Huguenots and Jansenists.
What is the French Academy of Sciences?
The third feature of human embryos that supposedly provides evidence for evolution but actually provides evidence for creation.
What is the volk sac?
This is a diagram that shows the presumed evolutionary relationships between all living and extinct organisms.
What is the tree of life?
The belief that evolution occurs slowly.
What is gradualism?