5.3-Science:Founded on Faith; 5.4-Evolution:A Retreat fr Science

The belief that evolution occurs by slow and gradual change is called ?

• mutation hypothesis

• gradualism

• materliasm

The fictitious branching diagram that supposedly shows evolutionary relationships between all organisms is the ?

• tree of knowledge

• ancestral tree

• tree of life

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The philosophy of evolution is actually a faith in ?

• nature

• man

• God

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The process that is a new, "scientific" version of spontaneous generation is ?

• abiogenesis

• uniformitarianism

• punctuated equilibrium

Darwin believed that the discovery of in the fossil record would provide evidence of evolution.

• phylogenetic trees

• transitional forms

• natural selection

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Darwin first published his ideas of evolution in the book ? .

• Principles of Geology

• Historiae Animalium

• Origin of Species

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True or False: "Useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolution are remnant organs.

• True

• False- vestigial

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A person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand his existence and the world around him are his perspective.

• True

• False- worldview

The belief that the world and everything in it was created by a supernatural act of God is evolution.

• True

• False- creation

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Darwin's theory of evolution was based on Charles Lyell's false idea of uniformitarianism.

• True

• False- materialism