Science: Order & Design - Chapter 5 Flashcard

Front

What is the belief that only the natural world exists?

Back

materialism

Front

Which event began the birth of modern science?

Back

Protestant Reformation

Front

Which view of life teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species?

Back

orchard view

Front

What term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him?

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worldview

Front

What term refers to an originally created type of organism?

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kind

Front

What are the 'useless' organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development?

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vestigial organs

Front

What modern animal is Pakicetus a supposed ancestor of?

Back

whale

Front

What is the foundation of modern science?

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biblical principles

Front

What false idea says that the present is the key to the past?

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uniformitarianism

Front

What English physician discovered blood circulation?

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William Harvey