TEST--CREATION AND EVOLUTION

[Originally used in a Christian School setting. To test your knowledge of creationism and the Bible, take this test, then mail or E-Mail it to me (Wayne Spencer). I will grade it and send my answer key back to you with your score.]

Multiple Choice

______1. Indicate the statement which best describes creation and

evolution:

A. Creation is belief, evolution is science

B. Creation is science, evolution is belief

C. Creation is belief, evolution is belief

______2. The idea that God completely destroyed His first creation

in judgement on Satan and then recreated everything in six

days is called

A. The literal or short-day view

B. The day-age or long-day theory

C. The gap theory

______3. Which animals came earlier, according to evolution?

A. Invertibrates

B. Apes (Primates)

C. Vertibrates

______4. Which animals came earlier, according to evolution?

A. Reptiles

B. Amphibians

C. Mammals

______5. An old evolutionary idea that evolutionists no longer

believe

A. Natural Selection

B. Punctuated Equilibrium

C. Inheritance of aquired characteristics

______6. Which view of evolution says that evolution was slow and

gradual?

A. Neo-Darwinism

B. Panspermia

C. Punctuated Equilibrium

______7. Evolutionists believe the earth is about how old?

A. 4.6 Million years

B. 4.6 Billion years

C. 20 Trillion years

______8. Which view of evolution says evolution occurred by jerks

(also called the hopeful monster theory)?

A. Panspermia

B. Punctuated Equilibrium

C. Neo-Darwinism

______9. Which man wrote the famous book The Origin of Species?

A. Charles Darwin

B. Hugo DeVries

C. George Lyell

Multiple Choice

______10. Which principle below is not taught by the Bible?

A. God created by miraculous direct acts--by His word

B. God specially created man and woman in His image

C. Genesis 1 tells us why God created but not how he

created

______11. Which best describes the vapor canopy theory?

A. A clear layer of water vapor very high in the

atmosphere of the pre-Flood Earth

B. A layer of clouds in the pre-Flood Earth that blocked

sunlight

C. A heavy morning dew that came every morning on the

pre-Flood Earth

______12. Which is true of Biblical creation?

A. Animals cannot change at all (over generations) but

must stay exactly as God first created them.

B. Animals can change in minor ways (like the size and

shape of a birds beak) but animals cannot become

something really different.

C. Through genetic mutations and natural selection ani-

mals can change without limit, given enough time.

True or False

______13. Evolutionists believe dinosaurs became completely extinct

about 65 million years ago.

______14. The Bible teaches that dinosaurs could not have been saved

on Noah's Ark.

______15. The Old Testament book of Job, in chapters 14 and 15 de-

scribe creatures that could be dinosaurs.

______16. Fossils are always dead.

______17. Fossils are always bones.

______18. Fossils are not always found in rock.

______19. Belief in evolution has nothing to do with Christ's death

on the cross to save us from sin.

______20. Evolution says there was man before there was death.


21. The day-age theory: a) Describe what it says b) Explain one

way it disagrees with the Bible.







22. List two Scriptures that clearly disagree with evolution.




23. Describe two ways in which humans are different from all other

living things.




24. Give one reason Noah's Flood must have been a world-wide flood

and not just a local flood. (You may use your Bible.)





25. Natural Selection is often described as survival of the _______.

This means that the strong survive and produce more offspring,

but the weak _______.

26. What is a mutation and what does it have to do with evolution?

Are most mutations beneficial or harmful?



27. Put the following creatures in the correct order according to

evolution:

Reptiles, Man, Chemicals,

Fish (vertibrates), Apes, Single-celled life,

Amphibians, Multicelled life, Mammals

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