Abeka, Science 8: Earth and Space Test 5

index fossil

a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found

eon

first and largest division of geologic column

People feel free to act however they desire

A moral consequence of a belief in evolution

Mold fossils

fossils that form when mud buries a plant or animal and then quickly hardens around it leaving and impression

Stasis

An organism that shows no change between its appearance in the fossil record and its appearance in the present day

punctuated equilibrium

Idea that suggests that new kinds of organisms are a result of rapid genetic changes that supposedly brings about a new organism in a very short time

Neither Creation nor evolution can be tested scientifically

The conflict between Creation and evolution not about what science says about what man believes is?

Inbreeding reveals hidden characteristics within a kind

How does inbreeding help form new species within a kind?

half-life

length of time required for half of the parent element to decay into its daughter element

Georges Cuvier

Science that first suggested that many catastrophes have shaped Earth's geological features

Charles Lyell

Person that personalized the idea that geological processes have always occurred at their current rates

Transitional forms must be fully functional at every step

Why the existence of transitional forms between creatures like a rodent and a bat are impossible

The same strata also contained modern human skulls

Why cant Java man cannot be considered a human ancestor

Principle of uniformity

states that the true laws of nature always hold

A. Robustus

Chimpanzee-like fossil species that includes "Lucy"

Homo erectus

"Upright man"

Homo erectus

Species of Java man

Homo habilis

chimpanzeelike "missing link" called "handy man"

Homo sapiens

modern humans

Neanderthal man

human "ancestor" who was fully human but probably had rickets

Peking man

Human fossil lost during World War 2

Ramapithecus

human "ancestor" reconstructed from a few teeth and bone fragments

polystrate fossils

fossils that extend through multiple strata

Theistic evolution

The false belief that God initially created life and then used evolutionary processes to complete His work

Uniformitarianism

False believe that all geological processes have always proceeded at the same rate

Geologic column

evolutionists' hypothetical time scale charting the earth's history

Epochs

Evolutionary interpretation of the fossil record, periods are subdivided into units called?

Intermediates

According to evolution, there should be many fossils that show signs of transforming from one kind into another. Such fossils, if they existed, would be called transitional forms or ..... ?

Nebraska

The false "human ancestor" that was developed from a tooth now known to have belonged to an extinct type of peccary was ———- man.

Anomaly

A supposedly highly evolved fossil found in "old" strata or a supposedly simple fossil in "recent" strata is called a(n) ———-.

Archaeopteryx

Unusual bird considered a transitional form between reptiles and birds

Coelecanth

deep sea fish thought to be the ancestor of the first amphibians

Seymouria

transition between amphibians and reptiles

Tiktaalik

transitional fossil between fish and tetrapods

Evolution

Belief that the universe and life originated by natural processes over billion of years

Wollemi pine

Living fossil that is a conifer that has only been found in the fossil record until living specimens were discovered in a remote canyon

Australipithecus

southern ape

Natural selection

A process in which individuals that have stronger inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.

whole-specimen fossils

entire animal preserved nearly intact by freezing, dessication (drying out), or entrapment in a bog or tar pit

(Special) creation

belief that God called the universe and all that is in it into existence out of nothing

Cranial capacity

the volume of the brain case of the skull

Living fossil

A term used to describe an animal or plant that disappears abruptly from the fossil record but is still alive today

Catastrophism

the idea that one or more catastrophes are primarily responsible for earth's geological features

radiometric dating

the process of measuring the absolute age of geologic material by measuring the concentrations of radioactive isotopes and their decay products

Unconformity

The gap where Continuous strata are missing on or more layers that are predicated by evolution

Big bang

the supposed starting point of cosmic evolution

Circular reasoning

Logic error that occurs when the "proof" of an idea depends upon the assumption that the idea is true is called...?

Eras

the second-largest divisions of geologic time

petrified

Fossils that formed when animals or plants that were rapidly buried by water and sediments had their organic particles replaced by rock are ——— fossils.

Charles Darwin

Evolutionist was popularized by the work of what 19th century British naturalist

Cambrian explosion

Sudden appearance of life in the lower rock layers of the fossil record is the what?

Rock mineral replace substances in the animal's hard structures

Why do petrified fossils not usually include soft tissue?

The jumbled bones indicate the animals were buried at the same time.

Why do fossils graveyard indicate a rapid burial?

No intermediates between man and apes have been found.

Why does the fossil record support the biblical teaching on man's origins?

The "simplest" organism are the smallest and slowest and were this buried first.

How can the Flood explain the supposed simple-to-complex progression of fossils in the fossil record?

He developed his sequence based on evolutionary assumptions.

An evolutionary paleontologist is studying two fossils: a bird fossil from China and a dinosaur fossil from the United States. Because most evolutionists believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs, he assigns the bird fossil a younger date than he assigns the dinosaur fossil. He then uses those dates to determine the ages of other fossils in the same strata and to arrange the fossils into a sequence that demonstrates evolution. Explain why his procedure in incorrect.

Radiometric dates are too old.

Some evidence indicates that nuclear decay rates may have been faster in the past than they are at present. If this indication is correct, what effect would it have on radiometric dating?

Both white and black moths were originally present.

One common example of natural selection involves peppered moths in England. Before the Industrial Revolution, the trees on which these moths rest were covered in white lichen. Most peppered moths were white, with a few black moths. Soot from new factories blackened the tree trunks, causing the black soot, allowing the trunks to be covered in white lichen again, the white moths again became common.

Explain why this example of natural selection is not an example of evolution.

Progressive creation teaches that creation took millions of years.

Progressive creation is the idea that God created the world in stages over hundreds of millions or billions of years. For example, someone who believes in progressive creation might say that God created fish and then did nothing until He created amphibians millions of years later. Which of the following is a reason that progressive creation does not match the biblical account of Creation?

And individuals worldview is the way that he understands the world every person interprets observations (including scientific data) based on his worldviEw. Biblical creationists and evolutionist have the same scientific evidence regarding creation and the flood, but they come to different conclusions because of their differing world views. Contrast The world views of biblical creation is an evolutionist as they relate to earths geological history, especially evidence for the Flood.

1. The biblical creationist worldview begins with the belief that God exists and that the Bible is His true word. The evolutionist worldview begins by rejecting God and the Bible.

2. Biblical creationist world view holds that earth was supernaturally created by God as described in genesis. The evolutionary worldview holds that all things came into being by natural processes.

3. The biblical creationist worldview holds that all life except Noah, his family, and the animals with them on the ark were destroyed by the global flood described in Genesis. The evolutionary worldview rejects the idea of a global flag, holding that geological processes have always occurred at the same rate.

4. The biblical creationist worldview holds that most of the sedimentary Strata and fossils found in the earth were deposited rapidly, during the flood; sediments were deposited much more quickly during the flood and at present. The evolutionary worldview holds that these strata and fossils were generated gradually over millions of years; sediments are deposited at the same rate they are today.