Disney and Darwin ~ Quiz 5

How can evolution be simultaneously a “fact” and “theory”?

Theory because evolution is a scientific explanation that is accepted as factual in the scientific community

Biologists' confidence in the fact of evolution rests upon copious data that fall roughly into what great classes?

D: A, B, and C

a ~ direct small-scale changes in controlled laboratory experiments or observed in nature or produced during a few thousand years of human breeding and agriculture

b ~ Direct large-scale changes, based upon sequences in the fossil record

c ~ we have the signs of history preserved within every organism, every ecosystem, and every pattern of biogeographic distribution, by those pervasive quirks, oddities, and imperfections that record pathways of historical descent

Is direct vision the only, or even the usual, method of inference in science?

no

According to Gould, the common goal of science and religion is....

Wisdom

Stephen Jay Gould spent most of his distinguished career as a Professor at...

Harvard

The last Disneyland attraction that Walt Disney spent considerable time working on before he died was _____

Pirates of the Caribbean