Flashcards : Understanding Evolution and Creationism — 24 cartes

Fostered confidence in scientific progress.

Treats the Bible as an ordinary historical document.

Made evolutionary ideas acceptable before Darwin.

Species do not change; supported by biblical reading.

Supported non-religious explanations in science.

Earth is extremely old, formed by slow processes.

Present processes explain Earth's past.

Proposed laws explaining progressive variation.

Described competition due to population growth.

Explained species change via use/disuse and environment.

Species as fixed, unchanging groups.

Major catastrophes explain fossil gaps.

Species can change over time.

Survival depends on competition.

Mechanism where environmental pressures favor certain traits.

Book proposing common descent and natural selection.

Believed in a creator who does not intervene.

Change of organisms over generations.

Formation of new species.

Fossil, anatomical, embryological, biochemical evidence.

Origin of complex organs, human traits, missing intermediates.

Divine creation in six days; flood explanation.

Alleged missing intermediate forms in record.

Fossil gaps and lack of transitional forms.