Science: Order & Design Quiz 15

worldview

a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand his existence and the world around him

"Origin of Species"

book that Darwin first published his ideas of evolution in

gradualism

the belief that evolution occurs by slow and gradual change

creation

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

tree of life

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

abiogenesis

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

vestigial organs

"useless" organs that are supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolution

transitional forms

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

uniformitarianism

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

nature

The philosophy of evolution is actually a faith in ________________.