Terminology
The belief that only the natural world exists
materialism
This event began the birth of modern science
Protestant Reformation
Pakicetus is the supposed ancestor of this modern animal
whale
This English physician discovered blood circulation
William Harvey
This is a term for science put to practical use
technology
The view of life that teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species
orchard view
This is the foundation of modern science
biblical principles
This book proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection
Descent of Man
This scientific organization, founded in 1666, was supported by Huguenots and Jansenists
French Academy of Sciences
This is the study of the similarities and differences in organisms' body structures
comparative anatomy
This term refers to an originally created type of organism
kind
This false idea says that the present is the key to the past
uniformitarianism
Three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution but actually provide evidence for creation are the pharyngeal arches, "tail" and "this"
yolk sac
This person proposed the mutation hypothesis, which states that evolution occurs through a combination of mutations and natural selection
Hugh de Vries
The idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors is embryonic __________
recapitulation
This term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him
worldview
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God
creation
This person proposed the idea that evolution occurs through natural selection
Charles Darwin
Formation of new organisms within a kind
speciation
These are the 'useless' organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development
vestigial organs
This person wrote Principles of Geology
Charles Lyell
This term refers to a sudden, permanent, random change in an organism's DNA
mutation