Inventive Ideas about Creation
The seventh day of creation week never ended
The analogical view
A group that modern humans and their supposed common ancestors all belong to.
Hominids
The wing of a bird and the arm of a man are considered _?_ structures.
homologous
Darwin saw great similarity between natural selection and this type of selection commonly used in farming.
artificial
According to W.A. Gurba, in his revealing and challenging text Understanding Evolution, the type of evolution that can and does occur is considered to be _?_.
microevolution
The order of the Genesis days of creation is topical not historical.
Framework View
A geologists knows the age of a rock layer above and below a middle rock layer. What technique is used to determine the age of the unknown layer?
relative dating
A scientist who groups organisms by kind is practicing what science?
baraminology
The idea that the earth's first living organisms, probably anaerobic bacteria, derived from non-living chemicals is called _?_
spontaneous generation
Life consists of only left handed alpha shaped _?_.
amino acids
God has intervened many times in the earth's history to create new species
Progressive Creationism
One of Darwin's tenets for natural selection was that it allows the fittest organisms to survive and therefor reproduce _?_.
genetically improved offspring
The best scholarship suggests the age of the earth to be somewhere between _?_.
6,000 to 8,000 years old
According to W.A. Gurba, in his revealing and challenging text Understanding Evolution, the type of evolution that cannot occur and therefore not be proven is _?_.
macroevolution
The suggested conclusion is that life has been directed or controlled by some powerful, and sentient force or being.
intelligent design (ID)
God created the world, but did not create individual species
theistic evolution
Neo-Darwinism is a blending of _?_ and _?_.
Mendelian genetics and natural selection
The idea that all living things come from common ancestors is called _?_.
descent with modification
Observable and verifiable evidence for evolution should be recorded here with a host of transitional and intermediate organisms bridging the gap between the kinds.
fossil record
Researchers in 1953 who undertook to show how amino acids came into being on the early earth.
Miller and Urey
The creation was finished in six literal days and within the last six to eight thousand years ago.
young-earth creationsim
He suggested that mutations could supply the changes needed for natural selection to work.
Hugo de Vries
Darwin gathered the observations for his book while touring the world on the _?_.
H.M.S. Beagle
Systems in living things that are of no value when separated into their component parts, are described by Michael Behe as _?_
irreducibly complex
What government funded project listens to space noise trying to discern signals that are giving information that is specific and complex?
S.E.T.I. (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence)