Darwinism

Question 1

What is the thesis of the Townes article?

Answer 1

Science and religion are both universal and basically very similar

Question 2

Scientific absolutism

Answer 2

The belief that the laws of science possess an absolute quality and explain everything

Question 3

Uncertainty principle

Answer 3

The discovery that light is both a wave and a particle resulted in a disturbing paradox which lead to the acceptance of uncertainty

Question 4

Why does Townes believe that religion and science will eventually converge?

Answer 4

Because they have similar goals- understanding the order and a man’s role in it

Question 5

What term did Michael Behe coin?

Answer 5

Irreducible complexity

Question 6

Who is responsible for observing and measuring Finch beaks on the Galápagos Islands?

Answer 6

Charles Darwin

Question 7

Ernst Haeckel

Answer 7

Drew pictures of animal embryos as proof of evolutionary philosophy

Question 8

Jonathan Wells

Answer 8

Wrote a book about the icons of evolution, arguing the case for creation

Question 9

What is the drawing of animal embryos supposed to support?

Answer 9

The idea that each animal goes through every stage of evolution

Question 10

What was the experiment with fruit flies supposed to support?

Answer 10

Animals evolve in one direction. But, the flies grew extra wings that were not an improvement to flying

Question 11

What was the change in size of finch beaks supposed to support?

Answer 11

The idea that animals evolve in one direction. But it proved animals adapt clinically to environmental conditions

Question 12

What is the truth about the peppered moths?

Answer 12

Moths were glued to trees

Question 13

What is the truth about embryos?

Answer 13

They were drawn incorrectly

Question 14

The fossil record

Answer 14

It does not support the graduate evolution of life forms developing from simple to more complex forms. There are gaps in the fossil record

Question 15

What can we prove by using mathematical law?

Answer 15

The universe was designed and executed by a great engineering intelligence: the ten coins in sequence argument (distance from sun,tilt of earth, revolution of earth, depth of land and ocean, distance of moon to earth, thickness of the atmosphere.

Question 16

What does animal wisdom speak of?

Answer 16

A good creator who equipped animals with instinct

Question 17

The genius of genes

Answer 17

It is as if the entire blueprint of a building exists on a postage stamp speaks of a designer

Question 18

What does the balanced Eco system of nature reflect

Answer 18

Infinite wisdom

Question 19

Why is the Cambrian period a problem for evolutionists?

Answer 19

1. A vast number (half of the animal phyla) of creatures appeared suddenly in this period.
2. This period is short compared to the span of time considered by evolutionists
3. There is little change in these species as they appear sudden,y, exist without modification, and even disappear looking the same as they did when they appeared.

Question 20

What does Richard Dawkins believe causes the belief in religion?

Answer 20

A meme that predisposes some people to be religious. It is like a gene, but it is a psychological unit. He ignores the fact there could be an atheist meme

Question 21

What did Stephen Gould leave open?

Answer 21

The opportunity that there could be a God in the philosophy of Darwinian evolution, much to the displeasure of Dawkins.

Question 22

What did Darwin admit about his disappointment in Christianity?

Answer 22

It was not based on his evolutionary theory but on tragedy in his family

Question 23

Who did Dawkins and other atheists claim was an atheist, even though he denied it and had the most criticism for that group?

Answer 23

Einstein

Question 24

What did bohlin believe?

Answer 24

1. American eugenics society forcefully sterilized thousands of people seen as unfit
2. Margaret sanger the founded of planned parenthood was a eugenic its
3. Sanger was a racist
4. Marx, Lenin, and Stalin were Darwinists. Additionally, hitter was influenced by Darwin