Fifty-two questions about creation vs evolution

Evolution Takes an Exam

This is a test to determine whether the theory of evolution can answer questions arising from things we see in our world. In order for a theory of origins to have merit, it should A. explain consistently and adequately what we perceive in today's earth and space environment B. be demonstrable as to its mechanics of operation and effects C. not violate natural laws D. be useful for predicting causes and effects and outcomes in the future E. maintain its prominence through scientific means rather than through speculation and whimsy or an authority appeal.

Evolutionists should take the following evaluation without resorting to religious beliefs and biases, concern about vested interests (eg. a university post or previous publications), but through the use of the best human logic including analysis, synthesis, inductive and deductive reasoning and common sense) Ruling out God or evolution or anything in order to give a response would not satisfy the requirements of this evalutation.

(Please answer true or false to the following test items.)

1. There are millions and millions of dead things buried in rock layers all over the earth.
2. There are millions and millions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.
3. Gradualism and uniformitarianism adequately explain why plants and animals are found fossilized in strata on the tops of mountains to the depths of valleys (These are the tenets of evolution that say it took billions of years of extremely slow deposition of sediment over the top of life forms to turn them into fossils.)
4. If you throw a fish out on the bank of a stream, it will disappear in a short time and not become a fossil.
5. The fossil record reveals that there have been no widespread cataclysms on earth.
6. The fossil record shows that animals have perished by the millions right in the midst of vital behaviors like eating and swimming, that they are often found in enormous numbers and at all ages crushed together in the same strata.
7. Mammoths and other animals and plants accustomed only to tropical and semi-tropical climates have been found quick-frozen in Siberia and other far north reaches of our planet.
8. Gradualism and uniformitarianism can account for almost all the fossil record.
9. One can find a complete geological column on earth that shows a progression of the simplest life forms at the bottom to the most complex life forms in the top layers.
10. There is no such thing as described above other than the drawings of evolutionists in museums and books.
11. The fossil record is complete with transitional forms between species and classes of animals.
12. The missing links are not missing. I would certify there is a bonafide "missing link" available for close study.
13. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado physically had to be formed over millions and millions of years of erosion.
14. Scientists always tell the truth.
15. The canyons and topography of the Mt. St. Helens country was formed over millions and millions of years.
16. A stalactite or stalagmite requires eons of time to develop.
17. Coal and oil have never been formed through heat and pressure in a matter of a few hours.
18. The cambrian layer contains all kinds of fossils including soft tissued jellyfish and other fish.
19. According to the fossil record, beneath the cambrian layer is the pre-cambrian which is evidentially devoid of life.
20. The cambrian layer reveals clearly that life came into being all at once. It was not a slow developmental process.
21. The same types of organisms can often be seen at both lower and higher levels in the strata.
22. If an animal in a lower strata is dated at ten million years and the same animal is found at a million years level there is a problem with evolutionary dating.
23. All reputable scientists believe the Grand Canyon was formed over millions and millions of years.
24. If an eighty foot tree pokes its way up through millions of years of the geologic column, logic compels us to believe the dating process could be in error.
25. A good scientist will rule out intelligent design a priori.
26. A good scientist will rule out Darwinian evolution a priori.
27. A good scientist will discard a theory which fails again and again to explain the evidence of the senses, clear logic, and scientific investigation.
28. The flood theory can't be a good one because too many Christian fundamentalists hold to it.
29. Finding a huge whale's skeleton 3000 feet up in the mountains must mean the denizen of the deep walked up there.
30. Finding a gold bracelet inside a vein of coal mined from underground, or finding a metal hammer inside a coal formation must mean they came to rest there during the coal formation process.
31. The presence of human made artifacts within coal strata indicates the presence of humans before or during such placement.
32. Human tracks and dinosaur tracks have never been found at the same level of strata or next to each other in the history of the world.
33. Complete skeletons of homonids (ape/human ancestors) are found in the natural history museums of the world.
34. Modern man, diseased man and monkeys have all been promoted as missing links by anthropologists.
35. A good anthropologist can accurately construct a hominid from a jawbone or a few teeth.
36. Fossils of pre-horses have been found to prove the horse evolved.
37. We only have artists' renderings and speculation as "evidence" of the horse's evolution.
38. Haeckel discovered that the human embryo goes through stages that prove that humans came from lower orders of lifeforms (including aquatic lifeforms).
39. An embryo goes through a gill slit stage.
40. Haeckel falsified his "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" study and was found out many decades ago.
41. Science has proved there is no God.
42. Science has proved there was a big bang.
43. Evolution is justifiably taught as fact in our public schools and universities (It is morally justifiable to teach a theory as truth or as law to the young.)
44. The big bang theory says that a pinpoint of matter exploded and flew outward to generate all the stuff, energy and order of the universe.
45. Accepting an intelligent designer for everything is a threat to Darwinian evolution.
46. Local floods can account for the fossil evidence we see in our world.
47. A worldwide flood could also be a gentle flood.
48. All the order we see in nature is imposed there by what we want to see. Our minds make order out of randomness.
49. Inanimate matter can give rise to intelligent life without a creator and sustainer.
50. If we see a Ford, we know there was a designer.
51. If we see the earth, the sky, the waters, and look into outer space, the order we perceive necessitates an intelligent designer.
52. We can name many big bangs that bring order rather than fragmentation and chaos (An explosion in a brick factory will build a fine brick home).

(This evaluation is a work in progress. I would hope to add 50 questions a day or however often as I research and validate the questions. Please take the tests as they progress and contact me to discuss what you see here. You are always welcome at this blogspot regardless of your scientific, philosophical, religious, etc. orientation. Of course, if you call me names I'm free not to post your comments.)


Rather than wait, in case someone wants instant gratification upon taking the test, answers are listed here:

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4.T
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6.T
7.T
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10.T
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20.T
21.T
22.T
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24.T
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27.T
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30.T
31.T
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34.T
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40.T
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44.T
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50.T
51.T
52.F

Hope you did well. If not, you will find resources at AIG, ICR, and CRS on the Internet, and in some excellent books, some of which are referenced at this blogsite