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Why were scientists in Darwin's time skeptical of his ideas?
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Because his ideas lacked scientific evidence.
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What famous mathematician disagreed with Darwin?
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Sir John Herschel
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___ ____ said that natural selection was merely trying to make us independent of a Creator.
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Adam Sedgwick
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___ __ and __ ___ strongly opposed Darwin's philosophy and developed agruments against evolution.
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James Maxwell and Lord Kelvin
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American naturalist, __ ___, said that there were no fossil records that proved that one living thing could change to another kind of living thing.
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Louis Agassiz
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____ is an attempt to separate science from its Christian heritage.
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Evolution
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A new kind of pantheism(worship of nature) is called "__ ___" environmentalism.
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"New Age"
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Pantheism environmentalism leads people to reject the real purpose of science- __________________.
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the mastery of nature for the benefit of mankind
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What well known scientist of the British Museum of Natural History expressed doubts about evolution?
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Colin Patterson
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