Creationism (C to E)

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left. Review the lessons before taking this exercise.
Chemical evolutionLiving organisms evolved from nonliving chemicals
CoelacanthsFish once thought became extinct about 70 million years ago
Comparative AnatomyScience that deals with the structure of animals
Continental driftIdea that continents had drifted apart first suggested by creationist Antonio Snider
Dinosaur-to-bird theoryMany evolutionists claim that some dinosaurs evolved into birds, and thus they are not extinct but are flying around us even today.
DNAMolecule of heredity that is passed from parents to child
Ectothermic animalCan adjust its body temperature behaviorally (moving between shade and sun), even achieving higher temperature than warm-blooded animal
Edward BlythPublished several articles describing natural selection in Magazine of Natural History 22 years before Darwin published his book
EvolutionTheory that all life forms are descended from one or several common ancestors that were present on early earth, three to four billion years ago
Evolution is directionalAll the life-forms on earth today were produced from one or several ancestral life-forms billions of years ago



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