Unit 1

Question 1

1909 Statement

Answer 1

Anti Evolution, longest, called The Origin of Man

Question 2

1910 Statement

Answer 2

Shortest, Christmas Devo

Question 3

1925 Statement

Answer 3

Just parts of 1909, less anti

Question 4

1992 Statement

Answer 4

Not revealed yet, why not how

Question 5

New Era 2016

Answer 5

No official position on Evolution

Question 6

Theory

Answer 6

An explanation of some aspect of nature that is well-substantiated by facts, tested hypotheses, and laws

Question 7

Explanatory power

Answer 7

How well does it describe current observations?

Question 8

Predictive Ability

Answer 8

How well does it predict future observations?

Question 9

Refutability

Answer 9

What data could I collect or experiment could I perform to refute the theory?

Question 10

Irreducible Complexity

Answer 10

Nature is too complex to be created naturally, an intelligent being must have designed it

Question 11

Probability

Answer 11

The odds of life evolving are too remote to have occurred by chance

Question 12

Nested Hierarchy

Answer 12

Group organisms based on similar traits

Question 13

Extinction

Answer 13

“If God was perfect at creating, then extinction wouldn’t happen”

Question 14

Succession and Biogeography

Answer 14

Animals may be similar to those around them (marsupials), fossils look similar to extant species

Question 15

Transitional Forms

Answer 15

Archopteryx, missing links

Question 16

Shared Embryonic Features

Answer 16

Organismal development through stages show the tree of life

Question 17

Homology

Answer 17

Common blueprints, one bone, two bones, many bones

Question 18

Vestiges

Answer 18

Lost function/purpose but still there, appendix

Question 19

Atavism

Answer 19

Traits show up again, tails and full body hair in humans

Question 20

Variation under domestication

Answer 20

Selective breeding for certain traits

Question 21

Difficulty in demarcating species boundaries

Answer 21

DNA doesn’t solve it, how do we draw the line?

Question 22

Old Earth

Answer 22

General idea that it was old, if it was young, he was completely wrong

Question 23

Establishing Pattern

Answer 23

Tree thinking, first phylogeny, variation in repro success

Question 24

Establishing the process

Answer 24

Natural selection

Question 25

Consilience

Answer 25

Take a whole bunch of facts and bring it together in a simple explanation

Question 26

Plato

Answer 26

Eidos, Allegory of the cave, species are in perfect form

Question 27

Eidos

Answer 27

Essence, type, species

Question 28

Aristotle

Answer 28

Scala Naturae, Creator made ideals and put them in an order

Question 29

Natural Theology

Answer 29

Understand creator by examining His works, Organisms are ideal, organized into system, harmonious nature

Question 30

Ray

Answer 30

Adaptations were just designed, fossils were too much, too many names

Question 31

Steno

Answer 31

Father of geology, age of the earth, tongue stones

Question 32

Linnaeus

Answer 32

Binomial Nomenclature, hierarchy, fixity of species, organize, organize, organize

Question 33

de Buffon

Answer 33

Rich, history naturelle, organic change, extinction

Question 34

Hutton

Answer 34

Geologist, erosion, Unifomitarianism, age of earth around millions

Question 35

Uniformitarianism

Answer 35

Processes we see must have always happened, key to yesterday is today

Question 36

Cuvier

Answer 36

Anatomy, fossils, extinction as fact, catastrophist

Question 37

Erastus Darwin

Answer 37

Darwin’s Gpa, species change, integrative approach

Question 38

Lamarck

Answer 38

Can’t put species in boxes, species are not fixed, epigenetics

Question 39

First Lamarck Law

Answer 39

Change in environment = change in behavior, change in behavior = greater use/disuse of structure, greater use = stronger, less use = loss

Question 40

Second Lamarck Law

Answer 40

Changes are heritable

Question 41

Paley

Answer 41

Watchmaker, theology, complexity