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What is the belief that only the natural world exists?

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Materialism

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What is 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?

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Creation science

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What Roman statesman wrote “On the Nature of the Gods” about the design in the universe?

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Cicero

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Who published “Natural Theology,” arguing that design in nature is evidence of God’s existence?

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William Paley

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What French zoologist began comparative anatomy to study the similarities and differences in organisms’ body structures?

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Georges Cuvier

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What is the similarity of structure, such as similar five-fingered or five-toed forelimbs of many vertebrates?

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Homology

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What term means that information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance?

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Specified complexity

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What are sudden, permanent, random changes in an organism’s DNA?

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Mutations

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What principle states that a type of organism that is better able to survive in its environment than another type of organism will survive and become predominant?

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Natural Selection

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What is an originally created type of organism?

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Kind

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What is change within a particular kind of organism caused by variations in a gene pool?

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Speciation

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What is another term for evolution, the development of all life from a common ancestor?

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Macroevolution

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According to the idea of natural selection, which is more likely to survive: an organism ill-suited to its environment or an organism well-suited?

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Well-suited organism

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What is an example of natural selection that evolutionists use to “prove” evolution?

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DDT-resistant insects

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What are the three views of life?

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Tree of life, Lawn view, Orchard view

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Which view of life claims that modern species descended directly from the same created ancestor species with no variation and no relationship between species?

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Lawn view

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Which view claims originally created kinds with great potential for variation?

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Creation science Orchard view

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What is the belief that nothing is spiritual and there is no God?

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Materialism

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What is the Greek explanation for the origin of life that living things arise from nonliving things?

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Spontaneous Generation

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What ancient Greek philosopher did most people look to for ideas about science?

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Aristotle

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What type of revelation is God’s creation?

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General revelation

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What type of revelation is the Bible?

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Special revelation

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What was the main reason for the increased development of science since the 16th century?

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Protestant Reformation

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What was modern science founded on?

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Biblical principles

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What Protestant pastor and schoolmaster described plants used for medicinal purposes in "Living Picture of Herbs"?
Otto Brunfels
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What teacher at the university in Tubingen illustrated and described about 500 medicinal plants in his book "The Natural History of Plants"?
Leonard Fuchs
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Which Swiss, probably the best-educated naturalist, wrote "Opera Botanica" and "Historiae Animalium"?
Konrad Gesner
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Which scientist published "Fabrica" and is known as the Father of Anatomy?
Andreas Vesalius
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What English physician is known for his study of the circulation of blood through the body?
William Harvey
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Which founder of the Philosophical College worked with several others to establish the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge?
John Wilkins
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What scientific community was founded in Paris in 1666 by Huguenots and Jansenists?
French Academy of Sciences
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Who performed the first experiments disproving spontaneous generation by using flies?
Francesco Redi
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Who conducted experiments with bacteria that marked the end of spontaneous generation as a scientific possibility?
Louis Pasteur
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What is science put to practical use?
Technology
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What is a set of foundational assumptions you use for understanding your existence and the world around you?
Worldview
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What is the belief that the world and everything in it were created by a supernatural act of God?
Creation
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What one believes about what event affects what he believes about the present and the future?
The beginning of the world
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The philosophy of evolution is a faith, not in the Creator, but in what?
Nature itself
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Who published "On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection"?
Charles Darwin
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What false belief that the present is the key to the past in Charles Lyell's "Principles of Geology" did Darwin come to believe after reading this book?
Uniformiarianism
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What principle did Darwin apply with uniformitarianism to conclude that he had found proof of evolution?
Natural selection
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In which of his books did Darwin propose that all organisms could come from a single simple form?
Descent of Man
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What process assumes that life arose from chemicals and is nothing more than a new, "scientific" spontaneous generation?
Abiogenesis
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What are the intermediate organisms that link types of living things that Darwin believed should be found in the fossil record?
Transitional forms
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What is a diagram used to show the presumed evolutionary relationships between organisms is the sequence of evolution?
Phylogenic tree
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What is a phylogenic tree showing all living things?
Tree of life
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What idea states that the various stages of an embryo's development resemble adult forms of several evolutionary ancestors in sequence?
Embryonic recapitulation
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What three human embryo features do scientists claim are demonstrations of evolution?
Gill slits, Tails, Yolk sacs
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What are "useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development?
Vestigial organs
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What is the hypothesis published by Hugo de Vries that stated that evolution occurred through mutations and natural selection working together?
Mutation hypothesis
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What is the belief that evolution occurs by slow and gradual change?
Gradualism
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What claims that evolution occurs in short periods of rapid-change separated by long periods of no change?
Punctuated Equilibrium
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What is one of the proposed whale ancestors?
Pakicetus

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