Chapter 16.1

Question 1

What term means that God created all life out of nothing?

Answer 1

Ex nihilo

Question 2

What is the belief that the universe and life formed by gradual processes?

Answer 2

Evolution

Question 3

What is the first book that Charles Darwin published in which his ideas were regarded as the greatest intellectual discovery of the century?

Answer 3

Origin of Species

Question 4

What is the name of Darwin’s ship?

Answer 4

HMS Beagle

Question 5

What book did Darwin read on his journey that introduced him to a false idea?

Answer 5

Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology

Question 6

What false idea did Principles of Geology introduce to Darwin?

Answer 6

uniformitarianism

Question 7

What belief has the foundational principle that the present is the only key to the past?

Answer 7

Uniformitarianism

Question 8

What states that the true laws of nature always hold, no matter when or where they are applied?

Answer 8

Principles of uniformity

Question 9

What advocate of Darwin’s evolution ideas became known as “Darwin’s bulldog”?

Answer 9

Thomas Huxley

Question 10

What two Americans supported Darwin’s work?

Answer 10

Asa Gray, James Dana

Question 11

What is the idea that God used evolution to make everything in the world?

Answer 11

Theistic evolution

Question 12

What is the belief was a merging of experiments discovering that genetic traits are passed down to one’s children and Darwin’s natural selection? It is also the most widely accepted description of biological evolution?

Answer 12

Neo-Darwinism

Question 13

What philosophy states that nothing is knowable outside the natural world?

Answer 13

Secular humanism

Question 14

What claims that each of the six days recorded in Genesis 1 actually represents a long period of time?

Answer 14

Day-age theory

Question 15

What is the idea that life arose from a chemical reaction in the ocean?

Answer 15

Abiogenesis

Question 16

Whose experiments were the most famous “proof” of abiogenesis?

Answer 16

Stanley Miller

Question 17

What hypothesis is the most commonly accepted evolutionary view of the origin of the matter and energy of the universe?

Answer 17

Big Bang Theory

Question 18

What self-educated opponent of Darwinism became known as one of the most popular creationists of the 1920s and 30s?

Answer 18

Harry Rimmer

Question 19

What Creationist maintained a literal interpretation of the Genesis account and wrote about it in his book The New Geology?

Answer 19

George McCready Price

Question 20

What two Creationists joined forces to publish The Genesis Flood?

Answer 20

Dr. Henry Morris, Dr. John Whitcomb

Question 21

What is the study of science based on faith in God as Creator?

Answer 21

Creation science

Question 22

What organization was created to assemble a group of scientists who would support the ideas of a literal Creation?

Answer 22

Creation Research Society (CRS)

Question 23

What creation research center was established from the Christian Heritage College?

Answer 23

Institute for Creation Research (ICR)

Question 24

What vice president of the ICR became known as Creation science’s bulldog?

Answer 24

Dr. Duane Gish

Question 25

What term states the fact that living things must have a certain number of their parts simultaneously functioning in order to survive?

Answer 25

Irreducible complexity