Introduction
Change over time.
What is evolution?
Genetic changes that occur over time and can be helpful, harmful, or neutral.
What are genetic mutations?
The belief that God created the first life and used evolution to develop it.
What is theistic evolution?
The similarity between species in things like DNA, skeletal structure, etc.
What is homology?
Fossils which go through multiple layers or strata and pose a problem for the theory that layers build up slowly over time.
What are polystrate fossils?
What is microevolution?
The principle that traits which aid in survival are passed down to future generations.
What is natural selection?
The belief that life emerged from non-living material.
What is abiogenesis?
The percentage of DNA that chimps and humans purportedly shared (even though a sequence run on purely chimp DNA without inserting human DNA sequences shows a percentage of similarity that is much lower).
What is 99%?
The minimum number of assumptions which must be made when using radiometric dating.
What is 3?
Large scale change from one kind to another.
What is macroevolution?
The principle that some traits get passed down purely by chance and not because they aid in survival.
What is genetic drift?
The belief that extraterrestrials intentionally seeded life onto this planet.
What is directed panspermia?
This human organ was once thought to be an evolutionary leftover, yet we now know it plays a role in the human immune system.
What is the appendix?
A purported transitional species between apes and humans, this female creature stands just 3 feet tall and was originally thought to be bipedal (walking on 2 legs).
Who is Lucy?
The name of Darwin's famous book on Evolutionary theory.
What is On the Origin of Species?
The heart of the evolution debate.
Are the mechanisms that drive microevolution powerful enough to account for the development of all life on Earth?
The belief that simple extraterrestrial life made its way to this planet purely by chance.
What is undirected panspermia?
These genes (once thought to be evolutionary leftovers) don't synthesize proteins, but they are still important because they play a role in gene regulation and aid in receptor binding.
What are pseudogenes?
A purported transitional species between apes and humans, this male creature has well preserved hands and feet, but very little upper body bones have been recovered.
Who is Ardi?
The geologist whose book, Principles of Geology, gave Darwin a reason to believe the Earth was ancient.
Who is Charles Lyell?
Give 3 examples of beneficial genetic mutations.
Mrs. Pierce will be the judge.
The belief that God created life on the Earth in the past, it was wiped out, and He recreated it again as according to Genesis 1.
What is Gap Theory?
This living fossil was thought to predate the dinosaurs and be a transitional species between fish and land animals. Yet, it was discovered alive and well today: unchanged and not capable of moving between water and land.
What is the Coelacanth?
Mrs. Pierce mentioned 2 volcanos that erupted, creating rocks that dated millions of years old when testing using radiometric dating methods. Name one of those eruptions.
Mt. St. Helens or Mt. Ngauruhoe.