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What is circular reasoning?
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The assumption of the age of rocks based on evolution.
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What is double dating?
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Geologist dating rocks based on fossils and paleontologit dating fossils based on rocks.
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Why is the geologic column flawed?
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Because there are too many "missing links" in the layers.
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____ is the sudden, permanent changes that occur in an organism's heredity.
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Mutations
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__ __ ___ published his hypothesis of mutations and thought that evolution occurred due to mutations and natural selection.
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Hugo De Vries
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_____ are scientists who study heredity.
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Geneticists
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____ produce changes in genes, but they do not produce new kinds of organisms.
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Mutations
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Most mutations are _____ (about 99.9%).
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harmful
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Why do geneticists urge evolutionists to be careful about using mutations as a proof of evolution?
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Because mutations are rare and usually harmful.
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