Biology - TEST Chapter 5 (choice)

Question 1

the belief that only the natural world exists

Answer 1

materialism

Question 2

this event began the birth of modern science

Answer 2

Protestant Reformation

Question 3

this view of life teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species

Answer 3

orchard view

Question 4

this term refers to a person’s foundational assumptions he uses to understand the world around him

Answer 4

worldview

Question 5

this term refers to an originally created type of organism

Answer 5

kind

Question 6

the “useless” organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development

Answer 6

vestigial organs

Question 7

the modern animal that Pakicetus is a supposed ancestor of

Answer 7

whale

Question 8

the foundation of modern science

Answer 8

biblical principles

Question 9

the false idea that says the present is the key to the past

Answer 9

uniformitarianism

Question 10

this English physician discovered blood circulation

Answer 10

William Harvey

Question 11

this scientific organization, founded in 1666, was supported by Huguenots and Jansenists

Answer 11

French Academy of Sciences

Question 12

this book proposed the idea that man evolved through natural selection

Answer 12

Descent of Man

Question 13

French zoologist who founded the study of comparative anatomy

Answer 13

Georges Cuvier

Question 14

German professor who wrote The Natural History of Plants

Answer 14

Leonhard Fuchs

Question 15

wrote Principles of Geology

Answer 15

Charles Lyell

Question 16

published detailed descriptions of human anatomy in Fabrica

Answer 16

Andreas Vesalius

Question 17

described plants used for medicinal purposes in Living Pictures of Herbs

Answer 17

Otto Brunfels

Question 18

helped found the Philosophical College; leading member of the Royal Society

Answer 18

John Wilkins

Question 19

Roman statesman who wrote about evidence of design in the universe

Answer 19

Cicero

Question 20

British theologian who wrote Natural
Theology

Answer 20

William Paley

Question 21

experiments that try to produce living things from common chemicals are trying to prove this…

Answer 21

abiogenesis

Question 22

how the sun, moon, and stars proclaim truth about God

Answer 22

general revelation

Question 23

a founder of modern science would likely agree with this statement…

Answer 23

true faith is a reasonable belief in a reasoning God

Question 24

if a fish became an amphibian within a few thousand years, an example of this evolutionary idea

Answer 24

punctuated equilibrium

Question 25

since both creationists and evolutionists have the same observations and data, why different conclusions?

Answer 25

they have different worldviews

Question 26

a good explanation of why mutations cannot cause evolution

Answer 26

mutations do not produce new kinds of organisms

Question 27

all organisms contain information stored in the DNA =

Answer 27

DNA information must come from an intelligent Creator

Question 28

why rock pocket mice are not an example of evolution

Answer 28

no new types of organisms were formed