Formation of new organisms within a kind is called?
What is Speciation.
100
What idea states that a type of organism that survives better than another type of organism will become predominant
What is Natural selection
100
French zoologist who founded the study of comparative anatomy
What is Georges Cuvier
100
What is the belief that only the natural world exists
What is Materialism
100
The belief that evolution occurs slowly
What is gradualism
200
Science put to practical use is
What is Technology
200
What is a diagram that shows the presumed evolutionary relationship between all living and extinct organisms
What is Tree of life
200
German professor from Tubingen who wrote The Natural History of Plants
What is Leonhard Fuchs
200
Which event began the birth of modern science
What is Protestant Reformation
200
The idea that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance is called
What is specified complexity
300
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God
What is Creation
300
Who proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection
What is Charles Darwin
300
Roman statesman who wrote about evidence of design in the universe.
What is Cicero
300
Which view of life teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species.
What is Orchard View
300
A basic similarity of structure between two different living things, like the similar fore limbs of most vertebrates
What is homology
400
Three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence of evolution but actually provide evidence for creation are pharyngeal arches, tails and ?
What is Yolk sack
400
What is the term for the old Greek idea that says living things come from nonliving things.
What is Spontaneous Generation
400
Published his detailed descriptions of human anatomy in Fabrica
What is Andreas Vesalius
400
What term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him
What is Worldview
400
Many evolutionist 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?
What is abiogenesis
500
The study of the similarities and differences in organisms' body structures is
What is comparative anatomy
500
What is the idea that evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time
What is Punctuated equilibrium
500
Helped found the Philosophical College and a lending member of the Royal Society
What is John Wilkins
500
What are the useless organs supposedly left over from earlier states of evolutionary development
What is Vestigial Organs
500
What false idea says that the present is the key to the past