disney and darwin final Flashcards
about who you now what you know
accurate
everyone in this class (including the professor) tells you that you have never been to this class because the course was cancelled; thus, there was never a class meeting. the reason you know you had attended this class is due to your senses
accurate
two extreme views are that 1) science and religion must battle to the death, with one victorious and the other defeated, and 2) that science and religion must represent the same quest and can therefore be fully and smoothly integrated into one grand synthesis
accurate
regarding the previous question, Gould contends that (BLANK) most specifically grants dignity and distinction to each subject
a golden mean
in NOMA defined and defended, Gould posits that religion is essentially about ‘is’ and science is about ‘ought’
inaccurate, reversed
concerning the two domains of science and religion, NOMA hold that 1) equal worth and necessary status for any complete human life, and 2) that science and religion remain logically distinct and fully separate in styles of inquiry
accurate
whether good or bad, which phrase seems to carry more weight as a knowledge claim in our current western society?
“it’s a scientific fact that…”
NOMA is ‘non-overlapping magisteria’
accurate
how old were both darwin and disney when they took their travelling leaps into the unknown
22
for darwin’s funeral in Westminster Abbey, the song composed was taken from the Bible’s book of proverbs: ‘happy is the man who findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding’
Accurate
it is possible that the above verse helps illustrate that even the judeo-christian god states that a benefit for acquiring wisdom and understanding is happiness
accurate
due to general public denires of biological evolution, walt disney gave up the idea of human evolution in his film
fantasia
floyd norman told us that the disney he knew and worked with was not racist
accurate
norman and michael broggie told us that having failures early in careers are normal, and that walt had big failures early in his career but never gave up
accurate
walt told broggie how to achieve by having curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy
accurate
darwin’s changing positions from species immutability to mutability was - in darwins written words - ‘like confessing a murder’
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darwin departed the galapagos an evolutionist
inaccurate
‘it doesn’t take a rocket scientist - or an english naturalist - to understand why the theory of the origin of species by natural selection would be so controversial: if a new species are created naturally, what place, then, for God?”
accurate
approx how many years did Darwin wait before publishing his most important theory ?
20 years
from the time of plato and aristotle in ancient greece to the time of Darwin, nearly everyone believed that species remain fixed
accurate
‘although the scientific community is now united in agreement that evolution happened, a century and a half later the cultural world is still divided’
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‘truth in science is not determined by the vox populi. it does not matter whether 99 percent or just 1 percent of the public (or politicians) accepts a scientific theory - the theory stands or falls on the evidence, and there are few theories in science that are more robust than the theory of evolution’
accurate
‘in science, the solution to problems are based on established parameters to determine whether a hypothesis is probably right or definitely wrong. statistics allow researchers to identify an event as likely to happen 99.99% of the time or as insignificant’
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‘the preponderance of evidence from numerous converging lines of scientific inquiry - geology, paleontology, zoology, botany, comparative anatomy, molecular biology, population genetics, biogeography, embryology, and others - all independently converged to the same conclusion: evolution happened’
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‘darwin matters … because his theory changed the world and reconfigured out position in nature’
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‘of the three intellectual giants of that epoch - darwin, marx, and freud - only darwin is still relevant for the simple reason that his theory was right
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‘darwin matters … because his theory changed the world and reconfigured our position in nature’
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who wrote the following: ‘just because something is the way it should be and people feel comfortable, happy, and safe, why can’t it be the real world? what’s wrong with the idea that if the real world is so bad you have to go to a place that is built to enjoy it?’
jack lindquist
according to jack lindquist, walt disney didn’t use the ‘focus groups’ to help determine what experiences and objects could be created by Walt to facilitate public happiness
accurate
what did lindquist consider to be his most significant moment in his 38 years employed at disney
first christmas encounter
according to lindquist, ‘disneyland was totally walts creation, dream, vision, and biggest gamble’
accurate
epistemology is about how you know what you don’t know
inaccurate
progressive juvenilization is an evolutionary phenomenon called neteny
accurate
Children, compared with adults, have larger heads and eyes, smaller jaws, a more prominent bulging cranium, and smaller/pudgier legs and feet. Adult heads are altogether more apish” Mickey, however, has traveled this ontogenetic pathway in reverse during his 80+ years among us
accurate
Gould claims that ‘babyish features tend to elicit strong feelings of affection in adult humans, whether the biological basis be direct programming or the capacity to learn and fixed upon signals’
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Gould submits “that Mickey Mouse’s evolutionary road down the course of his own growth in reverse reflects the unconscious discovery of the biological principle by Disney and his artists. In fact, emotional status of most Disney characters rests on the same set of distinctions. To this extent, the magic kingdom trades on a biological illusion - our ability to abstract and our propensity to transfer inappropriately to other animals the fitting responses we make to changing form in the growth of our own bodies.”
accurate
Donald Duck also adopts more juvenile features through time. His elongated beak recedes and his eyes enlarge; he converges on Huey, Dewey, and Louie as surely as Mickey Mouse approaches Morty. But Donald, having inherited the mantle of Mickey’s original misbehavior, remains more adult in form with his projecting beak and more sloping forehead.”
accurate
‘mouse villains or sharpies, contrasted with Mickey, are always less adult in appearance, although they often share Mickey’s chronological age”
accurate
‘and as a second, serious biological comment on mickey’s odyssey in form, I [Gould] note that his path to eternal youth repeats, in the epitome, our own evolutionary story. for humans are neotenic. we have evolved by retaining to adulthood the originally juvenile features of our ancestors. our australopithecine forebears, like Mickey in steamboat willie, have projecting jaws and low vaulted craniums’
accurate
two major factors in Gould’s argument are ‘babyish features’ and ‘affection in adult humans’
accurate
it is a scientific fact that ‘its a small world’ attraction facilitates happiness
inaccurate
as ‘x’ increases so does happiness. what can you say:
x is correlated with happiness
with regard to the previous question, how would you design an experiment to show causation ?
all of the previous
correlation a) is not necessarily causation, b) allows prediction , c) is a relationship, d) all a, b, and c
d) all a, b, and c
in disneyland, as ice cream sales increase, so do short tempers. thus…
e) b and d
the 2008 national medal of arts was awarded to the sherman brothers for creating the music that ‘has helped bring joy to millions’ this is a scientific statement
inaccurate
according to jeff kurti, why did the world cry when walt disney died
c) walts creations touched the world’s people
how can evolution be simultaneously a ‘fact’ and a ‘theory’
c) theory because evolution is a scientific explanation that is accepted in the scientific community
