Chapter 5.5 Evolution: A Retreat from Science

Question 0

Evolutionists assume that life arose from chemicals that combined in a primordial sea billions of years ago, this process is called _____ _____. It is nothing more than a new, “Scientific” spontaneous generation.

Answer 0

CHEMICAL EVOLUTION

Question 1

Evolutionists use a diagram called the ____ __ ____ to show the presumed evolutionary relationships between organisms in the sequence of evolution.

Answer 1

TREE OF LIFE

Question 2

Thee false idea of ______ _____ states that at various stages during an embryo’s Development it resembles different adult forms of several evolutionary ancestors in the sequence

Answer 2

EMBRYONIC RECAPITULATION

Question 3

In the 1800s, about 180 organs of the human body had no functions. Evolutionists called them ___ organs ,”useless” organs

Answer 3

VESTIGIAL

Question 4

____ is the belief that evolution occurs by slow and gradual change

Answer 4

GRADUALISM

Question 5

The most popular idea of rapid evolution, which claims that evolution occurs in short periods of rapid change separated by long periods of no change is _____ ____

Answer 5

PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM