Evolution and Creationism Quiz 2

Many evolutionists have performed experiments to try to produce living things from common chemicals. All of these experiments have failed. What evolutionary idea are these experiments trying to prove?

• tree of life

• abiogenesis

• recapitulation

• gradualism

According to Psalm 19:1–6, the sun, moon, and stars teach God's glory in a language that all people can understand. Which term describes how these heavenly bodies proclaim truth about God?

• general decree

• general revelation

• special decree

• special revelation

Which of the following statements would one of the founders of modern science be most likely to agree with?

• True faith cannot work together with reason.

• True faith and true reason are the same.

• True faith and reason are separate and do not affect each other.

• True faith is a reasonable belief in a reasoning God.

What evolutionary idea would a fish becoming an amphibian within a few thousand years be an example of?

• punctuated equilibrium

• gradualism

• uniformitarianism

• recapitulation

Both creationists and evolutionists have the same scientific observations and data. Which of the following statements best explains why they come to different conclusions about that data?

• Creationists and evolutionists choose to disagree.

• Creationists reject evolutionary ideas.

• Evolutionists accept the ideas of Charles Darwin.

• Creationists and evolutionists have different worldviews.

Which of the following best explains why mutations cannot cause evolution?

• Mutations cannot change an organism's appearance.

• Mutations cannot be beneficial to an organism.

• Mutations do not change the DNA of the organism.

• Mutations do not produce new kinds of organisms.