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Circle the correct italicized word or the correct multiple choice answer.
ICON: HAECKELS EMBRYOS
This was considered Darwins weakest or strongest evidence.
The embryos shown in most texts are at the earliest, middle or later stages of development.
Are all classes of vertebrates pictured as evidence or only those that look most similar?
It would be better to have drawings or actual pictures of the embryos.
ICON: DARWINS FINCHES OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
What Darwinian claim is made from the Galapagos nches?
a. SMALL changes added together is evidence for BIG change OR
b. SMALL changes do not add together to make a new species.
What is the main point of Darwins critics? Cyclic (back & forth) nch variation only amounts to:
a. macroevolution, not microevolution OR
b. microevolution, not macroevolution
ICON: FOUR-WINGED MUTANT FRUIT FLY
What Darwinian claim is made from 4-winged fruit ies?
a. Chance mutations can evolve more sophisticated and superior organisms OR
b. This shows how insects evolve from bird wings
What is the main point of Darwins critics? The mutant y:
a. can only survive in the wild and is thus not a true laboratory test OR
b. a step toward inferiority, not superiority; they cant survive in the wild
ICON: ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA (A BIG HEALTH PROBLEM TODAY)
What Darwinian claim is made of antibiotic resistant bacteria? It proves that organisms can evolve:
a. new traits useful for survival OR
b. into totally new species
What is the main point of Darwins critics? The antibiotic resistant bacteria are:
a. only a little bit better than the parent stock at resisting death due to antibiotics OR
b. less t over the long run than the parent stock of bacteria from which they came
ICON: DARWINS TREE OF LIFE: WHAT IS THE CLAIM?
What Darwinian claim is made? All living things have descended from a common ancestor:
a, going generally from simple to complex life forms OR
b. going generally from complex to simple life forms
ICON: DARWINS TREE OF LIFE IS ALLEGEDLY SUPPORTED BY THE EVIDENCE OF HOMOLOGY
What Darwinian claim is made from vertebrate forelimb homologies?
a. Common patterns show striving toward common functions OR
b. Similarity of bone structure pattern is evidence of common ancestry
What is the main point of Darwins critics? Mere similarity of bone patterns:
a. doesnt tell you how it happened; the Darwinian how stories arent supported by
genetics OR
b. this is not enough; you need to look at whole bodies
ICON: DARWINS TREE OF LIFE IS ALLEGEDLY SUPPORTED BY THE FOSSIL RECORD
What is the main point of Darwins critics? (circle the proper answer)
The most dramatic event in lifes history was the Cambrian explosion in which most of the animal
species or phyla(major forms) that have every lived on Earth appeared in a geologically sudden
event.
What Darwinian prediction is made of the fossil record? You should see a progressive tree-like
pattern of structurally that is:
a. similar creatures diverging out to more and more fundamentally different kinds OR
b. very different creatures appearing suddenly, followed later by small differences
Paleontologists from China are leading the efforts to understand the Cambrian explosion based on
the best specimens found anywhere in the world? JY Chen even says that the Cambrian fossils:
a. completely destroys Darwinism. OR
b. turn Darwins tree of life upside down, showing Darwinism is only part of the story.
EVOLUTION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION: FREEDOM OF THOUGHT OR FORCING ONE DOGMA?
What do the high school students interviewed generally say about the best way to educate them?
a. dont insult us with the claim that teaching multiple viewpoints confuses us OR
b. dont confuse us with multiple viewpoints, just give us the majority viewpoint in science
As part of a 2001 landmark education law in the United States (No Child Left Behind), Congress
mandated that
a. we should not involve pre-college students in controversy OR
b. where multiple viewpoints exist, we should teach the controversy
How has the 1925 Scopes trial stereotype been reversed in todays public education controversy?
a. THEN: free thinking evolutionists suppressed by narrow minded religionists
NOW: free thinking Darwin-critics suppressed by narrow minded Darwinists OR
b. THEN: free thinking Darwin-critics suppressed by narrow minded Darwinists
NOW: free thinking evolutionists suppressed by narrow minded religionists
CONCLUSION
Identify the author of this closing quotation: A fait result can be obtained only be fully stating and
balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.
a. Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolution, upon which this video is based OR
b. Charles Darwin, author of the book Origin of Species