Fossil Test

Question 1

Define evolution

Answer 1

the belief that life started by chance, and millions of years of struggle and death slowly changed a few simple living things into many complex and varied forms through stages

Question 2

Define Paleontologist

Answer 2

A person who studies fossils

Question 3

Define permineralized fossils

Answer 3

fossils preserved by minerals hardening in the pore spaces of a specimen such as a shell, bone, or wood.

Question 4

Who were the two men given credit for popularizing the modern teaching of evolution?

Answer 4

Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin

Question 5

What type of event would provide the right conditions to form fossils?

Answer 5

A flood

Question 6

What catastrophic event in May of 1980 supports Dr. Austin’s theory?

Answer 6

The eruption of Mount St. Helens

Question 7

List and describe the four Cs of biblical history discussed in this book.

Answer 7

Creation - God’s perfect creation; Corruption - Ruined by man’s sin; Catatstrophe - Destroyed by Noah’s flood; Christ - Restored to life in Christ

Question 8

Define living fossils

Answer 8

creatures found alive today that evolutionists thought became extinct millions of years ago

Question 9

Define trilobite

Answer 9

a crab-like creature was the first fossil found buried in abundance around the world

Question 10

Define Cambrian explosion

Answer 10

the sudden appearance of a wide variety of complex life forms in the lowest rock layer with abundant fossils. (Cambrian); considered a challenge to evolution, these may be the first organisms in a corrupted creation to be buried in Noah’s flood.

Question 11

Who said that fossils are “perhaps the most obvious and serious objection to the theory of evolution”? Why is this significant?

Answer 11

Charles Darwin; Charles Darwin realized that evolution needed viable evidence of transitions from one animal into another; without them, evolution could not be validated

Question 12

According to Flood geologists, what does the geological column show?

Answer 12

a series of burials

Question 13

Explain why fossils of sea creatures are found throughout the geologic column while animals and land plants tend to be found higher in the column.

Answer 13

Since they were buried later in Noah’s flood, paleosystems with land plants and animals occur higher in the geologic column diagram than those with only sea creatures, but fossils of sea life occur in all geologic systems or eco-sedimentary zones since the Flood waters eventually covered all the land.

Question 14

Define arthropod

Answer 14

all creatures with jointed legs and a tough outside skeleton (exoskeleton) made of chitin: insects, crabs and shrimp, spiders, centipeds, and millipeds

Question 15

Define cephalopods

Answer 15

means “head-footed,” since their tentacles com out of their heads; the most complex of all the invertebrates are the squid and octopus in the mollusk class

Question 16

Define diatoms

Answer 16

microscopic, one-celled plants whose walls are decorated with glass (SiO2) in exquisite patterns; mined and sold as diatomaceous earth, which is used in filtering and abrasion

Question 17

What are the first animals fossilized in abundance? How does the complexity of these first fossils disprove evolution?

Answer 17

Trilobites; Evolution assumes that the earliest fossils, which are found in the lowest layers, would be the most primitive and least complex since they hadn’t yet evolved into more complex beings. However, since these fossils reveal complex creatures of design, they disprove the idea that non-complex beings changed into complex beings.

Question 18

How do fossil clams testify to a rapid burial?

Answer 18

Many fossil clams are found with both sides of the shell still together. That means the clam must have been buried so deeply and so fast that it couldn’t even open its shell to burrow out.

Question 19

How did the fossils of sea creatures end up on the top of mountains?

Answer 19

The turbulent Flood waters covered the entire earth, including the high hills (Genesis 7:19). Then the mountains rose, and the valleys sank down (Psalm 104:8). At the end of the Flood, God raised up the layers that were below the sea, lifting sea-creature fossils even to the tops of earth’s highest mountains.

Question 20

Define evolutionary series

Answer 20

a sequence of fossils that suggests how one kind of creature might have changed into another

Question 21

Define metamorphosis

Answer 21

the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages

Question 22

Define splint bones

Answer 22

modern one-toed horses actually keep parts of the two flanking toes as important leg support structures (not useless evolutionary leftovers)

Question 23

Discuss two biblical explanations for the extinction of dinosaurs.

Answer 23

1 - Climate and soil conditions changed, dinosaurs had a difficult time surviving in that “new” world. 2 - they were over hunted by people after the Flood.

Question 24

Why should Archaeopteryx not be considered a missing link?

Answer 24

Features in Archaeopteryx that evolutionists claimed to be transitional were and are found in other birds. The conclusion was made that Archaeopteryx was just a strong flying bird. Additionally, regular birds are found lower in the geologic column than Archaeopteryx.

Question 25

Explain why the alleged sequence of horse hooves does not prove evolution.

Answer 25

First, the claimed earliest horse fossil is actually still seen today as a hyrax, or coney, not a primitive horse. Second, the change in horse size is not support for evolution since extreme sizes can be achieved simply by breeding. Third, the difference in hoof number can be explained by variation in horse kinds that were better able to live in different environments. Finally, the three-hoofed and one-hoofed horse kinds lived at the same time. These animals are not evidence for evolutionary transition.