Intro/Chapter 1
The author of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"
Who is Charles Darwin?
How a person interprets life through their set of beliefs
What is Worldview?
If you have a good grasp of logical reasoning and the investigative procedure to identify fallacies you are using a....
What is Baloney Detector?
Small changes due to habitat and natural selection (like finch beak)
What is Microevolution?
The basic physical and functional unit of heredity, made up of DNA.
What is Gene?
Astronomer who made science popular through TV and books
Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized story of what actual trial in 1925?
What is the Scopes Trial?
In this fallacy, someone's character is attacked instead of their position/idea
What is Ad hominem?
Changes that result in new organs, body parts or species being formed
What is Macroevolution?
The idea that everything, including out minds, can be “reduced” to its material base
What is Reductionism?
The belief that everything can be explained through nature or laws of science
What is Naturalism?
Johnson calls the news media this, indicating they control what people hear.
What is Microphone Man?
This is the fallacy of distracting attention away from the evidence by undermining the expert's credibility
What is Appeal to Authority?
Physicist who says the easiest person to fool is yourself.
Who is Richard Feynman?
Today’s (1990s) most influential evolutionary biologist
Who is Richard Dawkins?
The belief that nothing exists outside of matter
What is Materialism?
A term that means biased information used to mislead or promote a particular view
What is Propaganda?
This is a fallacy of purposely using a flimsy argument in order to easily prove it false
What is Straw Man?
Professor of zoology at Ohio State University and author of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate
Who is Tim Berra?
Molecular Biologist that wrote Darwin’s Black Box; described irreducible complexity
Who is Michael Behe?
The belief that there is a God who made the world, then stepped back and didnt get involved in it
What is Deism?
the belief that existence of any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
What is Agnosticism?
This is a fallacy of only presenting the evidence that supports your theory
What is Selective Use of Evidence?
A Darwinist and world expert on invertebrate fossils who admits that scientists are under great pressure to find scientific proof through fossils (affecting their integrity and forcing false evidence)
Who is Niles Eldridge?
Molecular biologist who said that all Darwin can come up with (at a molecular level) is wishful speculation
Who is James Shapiro?