Deck 2: Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory

Question 1

Charles Darwin

A) was an excellent student of Greek and Latin Classics.
B) enjoyed medical school.
C) was recommended to be the naturalist on the HMS Beagle.
D) did not finish his education as a minister.

Answer 1

was recommended to be the naturalist on the HMS Beagle.

Question 2

While at Cambridge, Darwin

A) found that he enjoyed natural history.
B) never liked collecting beetles or long walks in the countryside.
C) discovered that his father would not give his blessing for his job as naturalist on the HMS Beagle.
D) was not exposed to science.

Answer 2

found that he enjoyed natural history.

Question 3

Charles Darwin

A) was not concerned with slavery.
B) was a life-long abolitionist.
C) was indifferent to the suffering of slaves.
D) saw no contradiction between beating slaves and praying in Church.

Answer 3

was a life-long abolitionist.

Question 4

The Voyage of the Beagle was to

A) collect slaves for England.
B) map the coast of South America.
C) buy tobacco.
D) look for vacation sites.

Question 5

Darwin's position on the Beagle

A) was that of naturalist.
B) as a research scientist of mountains.
C) to help steer the ship.
D) was to disprove "special creation."

Question 6

4004 BCE

A) is written in Genesis as the time God created the universe.
B) has been scientifically proven to the beginning of the earth.
C) was calculated to be the date of creation by William Paley in his book "Natural Theology."
D) was derived as the date of creation by Archbishop Usher by counting the generation in Genesis.

Question 7

The problem with the Intelligent Design notion of irreducible complexity is that

A) there is no biological complexity to explain.
B) many complex biological structures had different functions in ancestral forms.
C) science cannot explain how the eye evolved.
D) scientists cannot explain biological complexity.

Question 8

There were versions of the evolution of species before Darwin, including

A) Charles Lyell, who wrote on the inheritance of acquired traits.
B) no ideas regarding evolution preceded Darwin.
C) Erasmus Darwin's poem Zoonomia.
D) Lamarck, who cut off the tails of mice.

Question 9

A problem for Darwin was

A) his disagreement with Alfred Russell Wallace.
B) a lack of understanding of the nature of biological variation.
C) no evidence that population growth outstrips resource availability.
D) lack of travel outside of England.

Question 10

Uniformitarian geology was

A) not an influence on Charles Darwin's ideas of natural selection.
B) the idea that the earth's geology was set at the time creation.
C) the idea that the earth's geology changed slowly over long periods of time.
D) an idea linked to Noah's flood.

Question 11

No modern study has confirmed that beak size in Darwin's finches came about by natural selection.

Question 12

Creationism and Intelligent Design trace their ancestry to the writings of William Paley the beginning of the 1800s.

Question 13

Thomas Malthus argued that population growth if left unchecked would outstrip food supplies.

Question 14

Alfred Russell Wallace was not given credit by Charles Darwin as a co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection.

Question 15

The writings of Thomas Malthus influence both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace.

Question 16

______________ calculated the year of creation by counting the generations between Adam and Abraham.

Question 17

In 1803, _____________ wrote Natural Theology, in which he argued that, just as a watch requires a watchmaker, nature requires a creator.

Question 18

_____________ is the idea that all plants and animals were designed by God for the place in nature they currently occupy

Question 19

___________ is associated with an early idea on evolution with his idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Question 20

____________ is/was known as Darwin's Bulldog.