8 C Flashcards
2: What is a common ancestor
An organism that supposedly gave rise to two or more different types of organizations
1:What is the evolutionary family tree
Evolutionists claim that they can line up these groups to show the path of biological evolution
3: What are similar structures that evolutionists say are best explained by common ancestry?
Homologous
4: What is vestigial structure according to evolutionists
Structures that according to evolutionists no longer have a major function
5: What are adaptions
Changes that helped them survive
6: Can complete or uninterrupted fossils be found anywhere?
No
7: What is the name for changes that help an organism survive and do not lead to the formation of new Biblical kind?
Adaptions
8: Give an example of a difference between creationists and evolutionists?
Creationists accept the truths of the Bible and evolutionists reject it
9: What is a common ancestor?
Organism that evolutionists believe has different groups of organisms as its offspring
10: What is the missing link?
An organism that probably never existed but is needed to complete the evolutionary path of other organisms eg ape becoming man
11: What is a fossil record?
A record of past living things
12: The forming of a new species is called?
Speciation
13: Can scientists create living cells from no living materials?
No