Chapter 16.1 Flashcards
What term means that God created all life out of nothing?
Ex nihilo
What is the belief that the universe and life formed by gradual processes?
Evolution
What is the first book that Charles Darwin published in which his ideas were regarded as the greatest intellectual discovery of the century?
Origin of Species
What is the name of Darwin’s ship?
HMS Beagle
What book did Darwin read on his journey that introduced him to a false idea?
Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology
What false idea did Principles of Geology introduce to Darwin?
uniformitarianism
What belief has the foundational principle that the present is the only key to the past?
Uniformitarianism
What states that the true laws of nature always hold, no matter when or where they are applied?
Principles of uniformity
What advocate of Darwin’s evolution ideas became known as “Darwin’s bulldog”?
Thomas Huxley
What two Americans supported Darwin’s work?
Asa Gray, James Dana
What is the idea that God used evolution to make everything in the world?
Theistic evolution
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?
Neo-Darwinism
What philosophy states that nothing is knowable outside the natural world?
Secular humanism
What claims that each of the six days recorded in Genesis 1 actually represents a long period of time?
Day-age theory
What is the idea that life arose from a chemical reaction in the ocean?
Abiogenesis
Whose experiments were the most famous “proof” of abiogenesis?
Stanley Miller
What hypothesis is the most commonly accepted evolutionary view of the origin of the matter and energy of the universe?
Big Bang Theory
What self-educated opponent of Darwinism became known as one of the most popular creationists of the 1920s and 30s?
Harry Rimmer
What Creationist maintained a literal interpretation of the Genesis account and wrote about it in his book The New Geology?
George McCready Price
What two Creationists joined forces to publish The Genesis Flood?
Dr. Henry Morris, Dr. John Whitcomb
What is the study of science based on faith in God as Creator?
Creation science
What organization was created to assemble a group of scientists who would support the ideas of a literal Creation?
Creation Research Society (CRS)
What creation research center was established from the Christian Heritage College?
Institute for Creation Research (ICR)
What vice president of the ICR became known as Creation science’s bulldog?
Dr. Duane Gish
What term states the fact that living things must have a certain number of their parts simultaneously functioning in order to survive?
Irreducible complexity
