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ABEKA BIOLOGY TEST 7 REVIEW ALREADY PASSED radiometric dating the process of assigning "ages" to rocks and fossils based on the breakdown of certain elements into other elements eugenics a "science" founded by some of Darwin's followers, of selectively breeding humans to produce a "master race" index fossil a fossil used by evolutionists to identify the "age" of the rock layer containing it William Paley the 18th-century British theologian who argued that living things show clear evidence of design Charles Darwin the British naturalist who wrote The Origin of Species" and The Descent of Man Archaeopteryx the fossil bird with unusual features that is often incorrectly cited as a missing link between birds and reptiles scientism the idea that science can provide answers for all problems in life Georges Cuvier the French scientist who founded the science of comparative anatomy the scientific method the special problem-solving method employed by scientists controlled experiment an experiment in which all factors are identical except the one being tested coelacanth an unusual lobe-finned fish that was erroneously regarded as the ancestor of amphibians transitional forms hypothetical fossils that would connect one kind of organism with another kind by a series of tiny steps law of biogenesis the idea that living things can come only from other living things Cambrian explosion the sudden appearance of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of evolution recapitulation (embryonic) the false hypothesis, proposed by Ernst Haeckel, that states that the development of an unborn child demonstrates a "replay" of evolution from simple vertebrates to man geologic column (geologic time chart) the hypothetical simple-to-complex sequence of fossils based upon circular reasoning scientific law a theory that has stood the test of time and has been verified by experiment after experiment paleontology the study of fossils hypothesis a tentative solution to a scientific problem analogy demonstrates the similarities among organisms that are designed for the same environment but are different in internal structure Anton van Leeuwenhoek Dutch naturalist who devoted his