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1
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If a child were born with natural musical ability because the mother had taken piano lessons, this would illustrate the theory of
A. use and disuse
B. need
C. mutations
D. inheritance of acquired characteristics

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D. Inheiritance of acquired characteristcs

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According to many current Flood models, the possible sources of the water include
A. superheated steam from volcanoes
B. a canopy of water surrounding the earth
C. an outpouring of water from beneath the earth’s surface
D. all of the above
E. A and C only

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D. all of the above

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The most common type of identifiable fossils is
A. preserved hard parts of animals and plants
B. preserved carbon in the form of coal
C. petrified fossils
D, frozen fossils

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A. preserved hard parts of animals and plants

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Which of the following is NOT a reason to believe in the universality of the Genesis flood?
A. The covenant God made with Noah (that such a flood would never happen again) would have been broken every time there was a local flood.
B. It rained forty days and forty nights.
C. There are New Testament references to a worldwide flood
D. The purpose of the Flood was to destroy all creatures from the face of the earth

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B. It rained forty days and forty nights

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Which is NOT true of the carbon-14 cycle?
A. Carbon-14 is formed by cosmic radiation’s bombarding nitrogen in theupper atmosphere.
B. Carbon-14 enters living organisms
C. Carbon-14 remains trapped in organisms longer than carbon-12
D. Carbon-14 combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide

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C. Carbon-14 remains trapped in organisms longer than carbon-12

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Which of the following would a Creationist NOT agree with?
A. Genesis gives a literal description of Creation
B. the Bible is the inspired Word of God
C. Science is a means to determine all truth
D. The Fall is the cause of all of mankind’s problems

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C. Science is a means to determine all truth

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A fossil that goes through several layers of rock is called
A. stratified
B. polystrate
C. longitudinal
d. petrified
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B. polystrate

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The age of the earth is probably between
A. 6000 and 7000
B. 10,000 and 20,000
C. 20,000 and 30,000
D. several hundred thousand and several million years
A

A. 6000 and 7000

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The fact that many organisms produce more offspring than can actually survive is an important part of the theory developed by 
A. Darwin
B. Lamarck
C. deVries
D. Marx
A

A. Darwin

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That Adam was able to take care of himself and eat fruit from trees when he was created supports a belief in
A. half-life theories of dating
B. creation with apparent age
C. the ability to day by decay and build-up
d. the gap theory

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B. creation with apparent age

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Which of the following is NOT a reason to claim that dating methods using radioactive elements are unreliable?
A. They assume that the rate of decay of the radioactive element must have always been constant
B. They assume a knowledge of how much of a radioactive element was present when the substance was formed.
C. They assume that none of the end products, subproducts, or radioactive elements escaped from the substance being dated.
D. They have never yielded an accurate date

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D. They have never yielded an accurate date

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Who hypothesized that an organ that was NOT used would disappear from the species?
A. Darwin
B. deVries
C. Lamarck
D. Mendel
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C. Lamarck

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Missing links are
A. found in the geologic record
B. intermediate forms that must have existed if evolutionary theory is true
C. sometimes found alive today
d. illustrated by the Eohippus
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B. intermediate forms that must have existed if evolutionary theory is true

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Darwin’s finches and the various collections of the peppered moths in England demonstrate
A. evolution
B. natural selection
C. inheritance of acquired characteristics
D. support for the pangene theory

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B. natural selection

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Which of the following concepts is NOT a part of Darwin's theory of evolution?
A. descent with modification
B. use and disuse
C. natural selection
D. pangenes
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B. use and disuse

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a mixture of evolution and the biblical account of Creation

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theistic evolution

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17
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an old universe combined with God-directed creative acts

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progressive creationism

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the days described during Creation are actually long periods of time

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day age theory

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proposes a first creation that existed before Adam and Eve

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gap theory

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20
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six consecutive twenty-four hours days

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literal creation

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21
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just like an ape

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Zinjanthropus

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22
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conjectured from a pig’s tooth

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Nebraska man

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a practical joke

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Piltdown man

24
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constructed from a bone, skull fragments, and a few teeth scattered over a riverbank

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Java man

25
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just like modern man

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Neandertal man

26
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speculated by many anthropologists to be man’s oldest evolutionary relative

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Toumai man

27
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literally means ‘before the flood”

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antediluvian

28
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a manmade object

A

human artifact

29
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the surface features of the earth

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topography

30
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an evolutionary line-up of living things

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phylogenetic tree

31
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man-controlled reproduction of animals

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artificial breeding

32
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the study of the origin of and the physical, social, and cultural history of man

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anthropology

33
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number of mutations in an organism

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genetic load

34
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evolution occurring in spurts followed by nonevolutionary periods

A

punctuated equilibrium

35
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T/F

The uranium-lead method and the carbon-14 method are two topographic methods of dating various objects.

A

False

36
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T/F
Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands while serving as a ship’s naturalist and later used what he observed there to support his theory of natural selection.

A

True

37
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T/F

Scientism claims that science is the only way to determine what is true.

A

True

38
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T/F

Theistic evolution is a blending of science and Scripture which Bible-believing Christians cannot accept.

A

True

39
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T/F
Human artifacts found in coal and other rock layers give support to the theory that man was alive before the fossils were formed.

A

True

40
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T/F

James Ussher used Bible genealogies to arrive at the date of 4004 BC as the date of Creation.

A

True

41
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T/F

Ice ages refers to “major periods of glaciation.”

A

True

42
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T/F

One of the drawbacks to Darwin’s theories is that in nature the fittest do not always reproduce.

A

True

43
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T/F

Environmental determinism is the concept that a person’s environment causes him to be what he is.

A

True

44
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T/F

Hugo deVries is credited with originating the evolution by mutation theories.

A

True

45
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T/F

“ontogeny recapitulates phyogeny” is a statement often used by Creationists to support the biblical account of creation.

A

False

46
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T/F
The rapid changes observed in some organisms due to natural selections are strong evidences for a biblical model of Creation and a universal flood.

A

True

47
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T/F
Structures that humans have and were once considered vestigial organs include the tonsils, the appendix, and the pituitary gland.

A

True

48
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T/F

The term genetic load refers to the number of mutations an organism or a gene pool carries.

A

True

49
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T/F

Environmental determinism is compatible with Scripture.

A

False

50
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T/F

some evolutionists try to account for missing links by using the theory of punctuated equilibrium.

A

True

51
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T/F

A person’s worldview includes the biases that influence his interpretation of facts.

A

True

52
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T/F

Evolutionary philosophy holds that all things progress towards perfection.

A

True

53
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T/F

A literal interpretation of Creation includes six twenty-four hour days separated by long periods of time.

A

False

54
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T/F

Molecular similarity of DNA between certain organisms is strong evidence for common ancestry.

A

False

55
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Explain the importance of a literal interpretation of the Genesis account of Creation.

A

The Bible is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. If the Bible is fallible, if it must be amended to conform to scientific theory or man’s worldview, then Christians are without hope.

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