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15 Cards in this Set
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Ex nihilo |
Latin for "out of nothing" |
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Evolution |
The belief that the universe and life formed by gradual processes |
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Charles Darwin |
British naturalist |
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The Origin of Species |
The book Darwin published |
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HMS Beagle |
The ship on which Darwin sailed |
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Charles Lyell |
Wrote the book Principles of Geology |
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Uniformitarianism |
The belief that natural processes have always occurred in the same manner and at the same rate that they do now |
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Principle of uniformity |
States that the true laws of nature always hold, no matter when or where they are applied |
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Natural selection |
The scientific principle that says that a type of organism that is better able to survive than another type will become predominant |
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Thomas Huxley |
"Darwin's bulldog" |
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Asa Gray |
American botanist that believed in theistic evolution |
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James Dana |
American geologist that believed in theistic evolution |
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Theistic evolution |
The belief that God used evolution to make everything in the world |
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Neo-Darwinism |
The merging of experiments discovering that genetic traits are passed down to one's children and Darwin's ideas of natural selection |
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Secular humanism |
A philosophy that asserts that nothing is knowable outside the natural world |
