Science: Order & Design - Quiz 15

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

• gradualism

• the mutation hypothesis

• punctuated equilibrium

• materialism

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

• ancestral tree

• tree of life

• tree of knowledge

• family tree

The philosophy of evolution is actually a faith in __?

• man

• nature

• reason

• God

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

• abiogenesis

• uniformitarianism

• punctuated equilibrium

• gradualism

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

• transitional forms

• phylogenetic trees

• pharyngeal arches

• natural selection

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

• Principles of Geology

• Descent of Man

• Historiae Animalium

• Origin of Species

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

• True

• False

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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 or False?

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

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Darwin's theory of evolution was based on Charles Lyell's false idea of uniformitarianism. True or False?

• True

• False