A Little Science
"True faith is a reasonable believe in a reasoning God" is a statement that one of the founders of modern science would _________
agree
The formation of new organisms within a kind.
He wrote Principals of Geology
Lyell
The founder of modern science
Biblical principles
The false idea that says that the present is the key to the past.
Uniformitarianism
A supposed ancestor of Pakicetus
Whale
The term that refers to the idea of studying science, especially as it relates to the origins of the universe and of life, based on faith in God as Creator.
Creation Science
A basic similarity of structure between two different living things, like the forelimbs of mose vertebrates
homology
The view of life that teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species
Georges Cuvier
An example of the evolutionalary idea where a fish becomes an amphibian within a few thousand years is _______________
Punctuated equilibrium
The useless organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development
vestigial organs
A supposed evolutionary ancestor of the modern what is Hyracotherium/Eohippus
horse
A book that proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection
Descent of Man
A British theologian who wrote Natural Theology
William Paley
This man described plants used for medicinal purposes in Living Pictures of Herbs
Otto Brunfels
Science put to practical use is ____________.
technology
What is the idea that, at various stages during their development, embryos resemble the adult forms of their evoutionary ancestors.
recapitulations
All organisms contain information stored in the DNA. Based on this statement alone, DNA information must come from an intelligent ______________.
Creator
Hugo de Vries proposed the mutation hypothesis, which states that evolution occurs through a combination of mutations and _______________
Natural selection
The English physician who discovered blood circulation.
William Harvey
Who proposed the idea that evolutions occures through natural selection?
Charles Darwin
The event that began the birth of modern science
This man helped found the Philosophical College and was a leading member of the Royal Societies.
John Wilkins
Mutations cannot cause evolution because mutations do not produce new kinds of ___________.
organisms