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Question 1

Natural Theology

Answer 1

a philosophy that was inspired by the elnlightenment, obsessed with reason and empirical observation

Question 2

Uniformitarianism

Answer 2

geological features result from the action of continous processes that can be observed to be acting in the present, such as erosion. Implied earth was older.

Question 3

Catastrophism

Answer 3

geological features such as canyons were the products of catastrophic events such as noahs flood in order to fit the physical record into a biblical timeline for the age of the earth.

Question 4

Aristotle

Answer 4

first to argue that human reason and observation could lead to an understanding of it

Question 5

heterozygosity

Answer 5

the condition of having two different alleles at a locus

Question 6

polymorphic

Answer 6

in biology, a discontinuous genetic variation resulting in the occurrence of several different forms or types of individuals among the members of a single species.