Disney Darwin Quiz 2

According to Jack Lindquist, Walt Disney used "focus groups" to help determine what experiences and objects could be created by Walt to facilitate public happiness

inaccurate (he did NOT use focus groups)

What did Lindquist consider to be his most significant moment in his 38 years employed at Disney?

first Christmas encounter

According to Lindquist, "Disneyland was totally Walt's creation, dream, vision, and biggest gamble."

accurate

According to Shermer's Why Darwin Matters: Darwin's changing positions from species immutability to mutability was - in Darwin's written words - "like confessing a murder"

accurate

According to Shermer's Why Darwin Matters: Darwin departed the Galapagos an evolutionist

inaccurate

According to Shermer's Why Darwin Matters: "It doesn't take a rocket scientist - or an English naturalist - to understand why the theory of origin of species by natural selection would be controversial: If new species are created naturally, what place, then for God?

accurate

How many years did Darwin wait before publishing his most important theory?

20

From the time of Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece to the time of Darwin, nearly everyone believed that species remained fixed (i.e., one species could not change into another new species).

accurate

Although the scientific community is now united in agreement that evolution happened, a century and a half later the cultural world is still divided

accurate

"Truth in science is not determined by the vox populi. It does not matter whether 99 percent or just 1 percent of the public (or politicians) accept a scientific theory— the theory stands or falls on the evidence, and there are few theories in science that are more robust than the theory of evolution."

accurate

"In science, the solutions to problems are based on established parameters to determine whether a hypothesis is probably right or definitely wrong. Statistics allow researchers to identify an event as likely to happen 99.9% of the time or as insignificant."

accurate

"The preponderance of evidence from numerous converging lines of scientific inquiry— geology, paleontology, zoology, botany, comparative, anatomy, molecular biology, population genetics, biogeography, embryology, and others— all independently converged to the same conclusion: Evolution happened."

accurate

Darwin matters... because his theory changed the world and reconfigured our position in nature."

accurate

"Of the three intellectual giants of the epoch— Darwin, Marx, and Freud— only Darwin is still relevant for the simple reason that his theory was right."

accurate

Who wrote this: "Just because something is the way it should be and people feel comfortable, happy, and safe, why can't it be the real world? What's wrong with the idea that if the real world is so bad you have to go to a place that is built to enjoy it?"

Jack Lindquist