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CR 370
notes after test 2 till midterm
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Science
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03/10/2012

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created by an iteligent source
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Creation Model's idea of life
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began by natural processes
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Evolution Model's idea of life
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life from non-life
the theory that plants, animals, and microorganisms arose suddenly from non-living materials under certain environmental conditions
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spontaneous generation
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meat and maggots
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Francesco Redi
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broth and bacteria
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Louis Pasteur
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life originates from preexisting life
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law of biogenesis
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biogenesis is the only explanation for life
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present earth
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conditions allowed life from non-life
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primordial earth
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in order for evolution to be true-life must have come from non-life
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abiogenesis
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the "proof" for evolution
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Miller-Urey experiment
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the idea that all of life has come from a common ancestor through a process of modification
a theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations
Definition
biological evolution
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Spontaneous generation of life ____ years ago
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4 billion
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not a modern scientific theory but an ancient philosophy
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Evolution
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life from non-life
Humans from other creatures
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Anaximander
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survival of the fittest
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Empedocles
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Charles Darwin eldest daughter Anne dies
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1851
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Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species
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1859
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Charles Darwin published Decent of Man
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1871
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Charles Darwin dies
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1882
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ardent evolutionist
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Grandfather Erasmus Darwin
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great age of the earth
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Charles Lyell
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variety of species produced
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Domestication of animals
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natural theology
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Theologians
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"Creation is unchanging"
"Creation has run on its own according to the fixed laws of nature"
"Science trumps Scripture"
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Theologians
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rejected the miraculous in Christianity
rejected the biblical doctrine of future judgment
thought that natural selection rendered design redundant
thought that the suffering and misery in the world was evidence against God and for natural selection
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Darwin's basic beliefs
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On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of life
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the full title of Darwin's book
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Darwins Origin of Species was the foundation for _______
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modern racism
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preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations
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Natural Selection
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Another name for survival of the fittest
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differential reproduction
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natural selection is _______ in nature
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observable
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Darwinian evolution
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pangenesis
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Neo-darwinian evolution
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mutations
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______=human classification term
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Species
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______=Genesis classification term
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Kind
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"After their/its kind" used _____ times in Genesis
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10
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initial complexity to life for the Creation model =
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large
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initial complexity to life for the Evolution model =
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small
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Creation limit to variation = ______
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kind
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Evolution limit to variation = _____
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none
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will only find record of distinct kinds
will find a limit to variation
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Creation predictions
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will find record of transitional forms
will find no limit to variation
Definition
Evolution predictions
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