BIO 250 unit 1 BYU UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Definition of Ophelia syndrome allowing other people to be the sole deciders of your actions and thoughts.
Leaving your fate in the hands of those around you to an unhealthy level
How to overcome Ophelia syndrome - seek out great teachers
- dare to know and trust yourself
- learn to live with uncertainty
-practice dialectical thinking
- foster idle thinking
define creationist doctrine -creatio ex nihilio
- sola scriptura (or bible as unique authority)
- literal interpretation of creation story
Church leaders and evolution: Joseph F Smith - stated that "adam took upon himself an appropriate body"
- stated that "Our religion is not hostile to real science. That which is demonstrated
we accept with real joy"
Church leaders and evolution: Heber J Grant - released a statement with a little less antievolution tones to it than previous
presidents
- responded to the scopes-monkey trial
Church leaders and evolution: Joseph fielding Smith and - they had a debate regarding evolution and it was known throughout the church
B H Roberts - after JFS becomes the prophet, he doesn't say anything about evolution
- The earth and man was written by Talmage as a response to this debate
Bruce R. McConkie - wrote Mormon doctrine, published it without approval of the 12, it contained
antievolution material
Church leaders and evolution: Spencer W Kimball - stated that we don't know how Adam and Eve got their bodies, but the way Eve
got her body via the removal of Adams rib is figurative
Church leaders and evolution: modern day - no official stance regarding evolution
Charles Darwin's background - was a member of the clergy for the church of England, was brought along on a
voyage to bring some religion for the boys
- during his voyage he began to be bothered by the concepts of "young earth"
and "unchanging species"
evidence of evolution - evidence of extinction
- succession of fossil types
- shared embryonic features
- structural homology
- presence of vestigial structures
- domestication
- nested hierarchal structure of life
CORRECT Answers
Definition of Ophelia syndrome allowing other people to be the sole deciders of your actions and thoughts.
Leaving your fate in the hands of those around you to an unhealthy level
How to overcome Ophelia syndrome - seek out great teachers
- dare to know and trust yourself
- learn to live with uncertainty
-practice dialectical thinking
- foster idle thinking
define creationist doctrine -creatio ex nihilio
- sola scriptura (or bible as unique authority)
- literal interpretation of creation story
Church leaders and evolution: Joseph F Smith - stated that "adam took upon himself an appropriate body"
- stated that "Our religion is not hostile to real science. That which is demonstrated
we accept with real joy"
Church leaders and evolution: Heber J Grant - released a statement with a little less antievolution tones to it than previous
presidents
- responded to the scopes-monkey trial
Church leaders and evolution: Joseph fielding Smith and - they had a debate regarding evolution and it was known throughout the church
B H Roberts - after JFS becomes the prophet, he doesn't say anything about evolution
- The earth and man was written by Talmage as a response to this debate
Bruce R. McConkie - wrote Mormon doctrine, published it without approval of the 12, it contained
antievolution material
Church leaders and evolution: Spencer W Kimball - stated that we don't know how Adam and Eve got their bodies, but the way Eve
got her body via the removal of Adams rib is figurative
Church leaders and evolution: modern day - no official stance regarding evolution
Charles Darwin's background - was a member of the clergy for the church of England, was brought along on a
voyage to bring some religion for the boys
- during his voyage he began to be bothered by the concepts of "young earth"
and "unchanging species"
evidence of evolution - evidence of extinction
- succession of fossil types
- shared embryonic features
- structural homology
- presence of vestigial structures
- domestication
- nested hierarchal structure of life
