Ch 5 Flashcards
(47 cards)
This explains why mutations cannot cause evolution
Mutations do not produce new kinds of organisms
Nature is God’s what?
General revelation
The belief that everything is material
Materialism
This event began the birth of modern science
The Protestant Reformation
This view of life is consistent with both the Bible and observations
The orchard view
Information must have this
An intelligent cause
This term is used to refer to a person’s outlook about life and the world
Worldview
Most of the founders of modern science believed this
To faith is a reasonable belief in a reasoning God
The materialistic idea that says the present is the key to the past
Uniformitarianism
Rock pocket mice are not an example of evolution because…
No new types of organisms were formed
This term refers to originally created types of organisms
Kinds
The scientific concept that states that living things can originate only from existing living things
The law of biogenesis
This term refers to useless organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development
Vestigial organs
Three features of human embryos that supposedly provide evidence for evolution but actually provide evidence for creation
Pharyngeal arches, yolk sacs, tails
The man who wrote principles of geology
Lyell
The man who founded comparative anatomy
Cuvier
Formation of new organisms with in a kind
Speciation
Science put to practical use
Technology
One of the well-known books written by Charles Darwin
Origin of Species or Descent of Man
The belief that the universe is the result of a supernatural act of God
Creation
The old Greek idea that says that living things come from nonliving things
Spontaneous generation
The man who discovered blood circulation
William Harvey
The man who used broth and flasks to disprove spontaneous generation
Louis Pasteur
The father of anatomy
Vesalius