Patterns in Nature

Question 1

Modern Synthesis

Answer 1

combination of mutations and natural selection

Question 2

Theory of Acquired Characteristics

Answer 2

idea that organisms can gain new traits and pass on those traits to their offspring

Question 3

Fixity of the Species

Answer 3

the idea that species do NOT change over time

Question 4

Fossils

Answer 4

preserved remains of plants and animals

Question 5

Dating

Answer 5

how scientist attempt to find the age of rocks

Question 6

Natural Selection

Answer 6

individuals in a species need to compete for things needed for survival. Some individuals have traits that make them better able to compete. With each new generation, the traits that better allow survival become more common.

Question 7

Homologous structures

creationists v evolutionist

Answer 7

similar features found in organisms

common designer v common ancestor

Question 8

Vestigial Structures

Answer 8

structures that don’t appear to have a use and therefore “must” be leftovers from earlier evolutionary stages

Question 9

Embryology

creationist view v evolutionary view

Answer 9

stages of early development in certain organisms show similarities.
DNA is different from birth v common ancestor

Question 10

Mass Extinction Event

Creation v evolution

Answer 10

some major event that wiped out the majority of animals on the planet
flood v comet

Question 11

Mutations

creation v evolution

Answer 11

random changes in DNA

should show increasing disorder v a lot of time is needed to allow for the millions of mutations necessary for evolution

Question 12

Kinds

Answer 12

different groups of organisms that God created to be distinct from each other. Not a species

Question 13

Transitional Forms

Answer 13

intermediate organisms with partially developed body parts. Missing from the fossil record

Question 14

Common Ancestor

Answer 14

an organism that had the ability for all life to develop from it

Question 15

Survival of the fittest

Answer 15

organisms with the best traits will survive

Question 16

Uniformitarianism

Answer 16

the idea that the Earth’s physical processes operate at the same rate in the present as they did in the past

Question 17

How old evolutionists say the earth is

Answer 17

millions-billions of years old

Question 18

living things are the result of:
creation?
evolution?

Answer 18

creation: God creating them
evolution: millions of chance mutations

Question 19

mineralized fossil

Answer 19

petrified wood

Question 20

carbonized fossil

Answer 20

plants

Question 21

cast/mold

Answer 21

trilobite

Question 22

trace

Answer 22

footprints, bite marks, egg shells

Question 23

original

Answer 23

mosquito in amber

Question 24

what does the fossil record show us

Answer 24

Fossils record is layers of rocks with fossils in the layers. The lower layers equal older rocks in the evolutionary worldview. The fossil layer contains plants and animals that once existed but are no longer alive today. It shows that some kinds of organisms are now less common than in the past.

Question 25

Relative dating

Answer 25

rock layers compared to the layers near them

Question 26

Absolute dating

Answer 26

looks at the known rates of radioactive decay in igneous rocks

Question 27

Carbon-14 dating

Answer 27

Uses Carbon-14 to calculate fossil’s age. Only works in fossils less than 100,000 years old

Question 28

problems with the dating methods

Answer 28

1. Common for absolute dating methods to yield ages that are known to be incorrect
2. Carbon-14 has been found in fossils considered to be millions of years old, showing that the fossils are actually much younger.

Question 29

Darwin’s book

Answer 29

On the Origin of the Species and Natural Selection

Question 30

Two theories that influenced Darwin

Answer 30

Uniformitarianism & Theory of Acquired Characteristics

Question 31

problem with transitional forms

Answer 31

there should be many in the fossil record but there are not

Question 32

can evolution and the Biblical account work together

Answer 32

1. doesn’t take the Bible as literal and therefore why trust it in other spots
2. death came at the fall not before it
3. Jesus quoted Genesis as though it was real history