Chapter 13

Question 1

Hebrews

Answer 1

People who had a distinct advantage over other ancient peoples in the study of the natural world because they possessed God’s truth as preserved in the Scriptures

Question 2

Solomon

Answer 2

King of Israel who studied natural history

Question 3

Greeks

Answer 3

Ancient civilization whose people developed many ideas about nature but were blinded by superstition

Question 4

Spontaneous generation

Answer 4

Idea that living things can arise from nonliving things

Question 5

Evolution

Answer 5

Teaching that all living things developed from a common ancestor

Question 6

Plato

Answer 6

Early Greek philosopher who developed the doctrine of ideas

Question 7

Doctrine of intellect

Answer 7

System of thought, developed by Aristotle, based on the idea that intellectual speculation is the highest form of reality

Question 8

Doctrine of ideas

Answer 8

System of thought, developed by Plato, based on the idea that the physical world is not genuinely real

Question 9

Aristotle

Answer 9

Disciple of Plato who developed the doctrine of intellect

Question 10

Romans

Answer 10

Ancient civilization that compiled and spread the natural science of the Greeks and other earlier civilizations

Question 11

Platonism

Answer 11

The philosophy derived from Plato’s ideas

Question 12

Pliny the Elder

Answer 12

Roman general who wrote Natural History

Question 13

Natural History

Answer 13

Work by Pliny the Elder that touched on many scientific subjects

Question 14

Galen

Answer 14

2nd-century Greek physician who was considered the absolute authority in human anatomy for over a thousand years

Question 15

Nestorians

Answer 15

Group of Greek Christians who carried ancient natural knowledge to Persia and helped preserve this knowledge during the Middle Ages