Fossils
Animals and plants that disappear abruptly from the fossil record, yet are still alive today.
What are living fossils?
Evolution was popularized by the work of this 19th century British naturalist.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The logic error in which the "proof" of an idea depends on the assumption that the idea is true.
What is circular reasoning?
A technique used by evolutionists to assign "absolute" ages to rocks and fossils.
What is radiometric dating?
The sudden appearance of life in the lower rock layers of the fossil record.
What is the Cambrian Explosion?
Fossils that evolutionists use to identify the supposed ages of rock layers.
What are index fossils?
The historical event that probably formed most of the fossils in the earth.
What is The Flood?
A technique used by evolutionists to assign "absolute" ages to rocks and fossils.
What is radiometric dating?
This term describes the amount of time needed for half of a parent element to decay into its daughter element.
What is half life?
When continuous strata are missing one or more layers.
What is an unconformity?
Fossils that formed when animals or plants were rapidly buried by water and sediments and their organic particles were replaced by rock.
What are petrified fossils?
A living deep sea fish once thought to be the ancestor of the first amphibians.
What is a coelacanth?
The false belief that God initially created life and then used evolutionary processes to complete his work.
What is theistic evolution?
Method evolutionists use to date organic materials.
What is carbon-14 dating?
In the evolutionary interpretation of the fossil record, periods are subdivided into these units.
What is an epoch?
This living fossil is a conifer that had been found in a remote canyon.
What is a Wollemi pine?
Made popular the idea that geological processes have always occurred at the same rate.
Who is Charles Lyell?
The belief that the universe and life originated by natural processes over billions of years.
What is evolution?
The first and largest division of the geologic column.
What is an eon?
This term describes an organism showing no change between its appearances in the fossil record and at present day.
What is stasis?
A fossil that extends through multiple strata.
What is a polystrate fossil?
The supposed transitional form between amphibians and reptiles.
What is Seymouria?
The false belief that all geological processes have always proceeded at the same rate.
What is Uniformitarianism?
The second largest divisions of the geologic column?
What are eras?
What is an anomaly?