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20 Cards in this Set
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What is Natural Selection?
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The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
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What is meant by evolution?
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Mutations occurred during reproduction that allowed the new life from to survive better than the old.
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Why can the God of deist belief not answer prayers?
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Because he does not concern himself with humans and our affairs.
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In which century did Charles Darwin live?
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19th
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What was the title of Darwin's major work?
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The origin of Species
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When was it published?
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November 24, 1859
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What do all living things possess?
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DNA
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What rules evolution by natural selection?
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Survival of the fittest
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Which famous analogy did Dawkins refer to through the title of his book?
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The Watchmaker Analogy
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What does Dawkin want to persuade his readers about?
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That natural selection is the blind watchmaker.
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How does Dawkins describe Paley's argument?
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As the Watchmaker's Theory.
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According to Dawkins what is the only watchmaker in nature?
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Natural selection.
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What does a theistic evolutionist believe?
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That religious teachings about God are compatible with modern scientific understanding about biological evolution.
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What species does man belong to?
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Mammals
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Which primates is modern man connected to?
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Apes
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What phrase was missing from the last sentence of the first edition of Darwin's major work?
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
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Why-according to some scholars-was it added later?
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Because of the religious beliefs of his wife.
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What was the name of Darwin's wife?
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Emma
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Why is the debate about Darwin's religious beliefs complicated?
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Because he has tried to prove that God doesn't exist but he says he is not an atheist.
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What does Darwin consider to be the best description of his religious state of mind.
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Agnostic
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