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What does "survival of the fittest" mean?
Organisms that are able to adapt to their environment will be able to reproduce and survive.
What belief about sin makes the idea that God could have used evolution to create the world impossible?
Evolution is dependent on the fossil record which requires death in order to happen. The Bible says that because of man's sin, death entered the world.
What event triggered WW1?
The assassination of the archduke of Austria-Hungary.
Who was the US president during WW1?
Woodrow Wilson
Name two ways the US helped to turn the tide of the war.
They had fresh troops and new ideas.
Name four factors that contributed to WW1.
militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism
What was the goal of the Schlieffen Plan?
Germany wanted to conquer France so they would not have to fight a two front war.
What happened at the Battle of Tannenberg?
Russian soldiers sabotaged their commanders' plans in an effort to support the Bolshevik revolution.
Who was the person who wrote The Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
What was the last battle of WW1?
The Battle of Argonne Forest
Why does the Cambrian explosion cast doubt on the theory of evolution?
No transitional fossils are in the geological record that explain the appearance of the many fossils in the Cambrian Era.
What was the flaw in the reasoning presented in The Descent of Man?
The Descent of Man did not address the differences between apes and humans.
What was one of the main reasons that Germany was punished after the war ended?
They had massacred civillians.
Who said, "The mystery of life is solved. There is no purpose because we are here by chance"?
Richard Dawkins
How did trench warfare contribute to the many stalemates of WW1?
Opposing troops could fight defensively instead of fighting offensively.
Argue against extrapolated evolution.
Extrapolated evolution assumes that small scale adaptations allow for large scale changes. Many times abnormalities resulted in the death of the animal.
What two events changed Americans' view of entering WW1?
the sinking of the Lusitania
the Zimmermann Telegraph
Name two military strategies that were used for the first time during WW1.
aerial bombardments
chemical warfare
Who said, "The cosmos is all that is, or was, or ever will be"?
Carl Sagan
Why did the Germans not succeed with the Schlieffen Plan?
The French and Belgians blew up the railroads which created supply problems for the Germans.
Argue against "irreducible complexity".
Irreducible complexity assumes that life moved from simple to complex. However, the eye is so complex that it would not have been able to function if parts of it were missing.
What were the two main ideas of The Origin of Species?
a universal common ancestor
natural selection - species that had adapted traits had the best chance of reproducing
Name two ways US courts supported eugenics.
Buck v. Bell allowed forced sterilization.
VA Racial Integrity Act forbid intermarriage of whites and nonwhites.
Who was given half of what he requested to fight the Battle of Gallipoli?
Winston Churchill
What is significant about Flanders Field?
It's a poem about the soldiers who died there and a challenge for others to take up the fight.