Chapter 5 Flashcards
Useless organs left from evolution.
Vestigial organs
The assumptions used to understand the world around you.
Worldview
Charles Lyell had the idea of?
Uniformitarianism
The belief that God created everything.
Creation
Darwin’s first book?
Origin of Species
Slow and gradual evolution?
Gradualism
Short periods of rapid evolution spread out?
Punctuated Equilibrium
Darwin’s hope for evolutionary evidence?
Transitional forms
The “new” spontaneous generation using chemicals?
Abiogensis
What is an originally created type of organism?
Kind
What describes the phenomena of certain genes being better suited for certain conditions to survive?
Natural selection
What view teaches that there has been no variation since creation?
Lawn View
A random, permanent change in DNA?
Mutation
What term refers to information can not occur by chance?
Specified complexity
The stars are an example of?
General Revelation
What is the study of similar body structures?
Comparative anatomy
What term refers to so many animals having 5 fingers?
Homology
Who wrote Natural Theology?
William Paley
Who came up with the idea of comparative anatomy?
George Cuvier
Creation is what revelation?
General
The idea that nothing is spiritual?
Materialism
The increase in scientific discovery was from?
Protestant Reformation and the Bible
Science put to practical use?
Technology
Living Pictures of Herbs
Otto Brunfels
Wrote Natural Selection
Studied Blood circulation
William Harvey
Wrote Fabrica
Andreas Vesalius
Started the Philosophical College
John Wilkins
Started the French Academy of Science
Huguenots
Where was Leonhard Fuchs from?
Tubingen Germany
Who was the Roman statesman that supported science?
Cicero
What idea says that a type of organism is better to survive in an environment?
Natural selection
DNA is the most efficient method of information storage. This is evidence that it needs a__________?
Inventor
Mutations do not create new______________ or new_____________________?
Information and kinds
Change within a kind of organisms within the gene pool?
Speciation
There are 3 ways to look at living things (know them and define them)
Tree of life- everything from one common point
Lawn View- nothing has changed since creation
Orchard- we have the trees with every tree as a different kind that branches out to have all the various species within that kind
Living things arising from nonliving things?
Spontaneous generation
The idea that human embryos go through stages of adult evolutionary forms?
Embryonic recapitulation
Evolutionists suggest that human embryos have______________________________?
Gill slits, a tail, and yolk sac
Eohippus/Hyracotherium
Evolutionary horse ancestor
Pakicetus
Evolutionary whale ancestor