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Searching for the Truth on Origins Exam #4: The Complexity of Life |
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True or False |
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T F |
The awesome complexity of life should force everyone to determine why we exist. |
| 2. |
T F |
A turning point in the author's life regarding his view of creation was when he looked at a table that he had made in a high school woodworking class. |
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A cell is the smallest and simplest unit of life, which supports the evolutionary assumption that non-life came to life in the form of a cell. |
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Mutations, or mistakes to the genetic code, can increase the complexity of life through time. |
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T F |
The details of molecular genetics is where scientists see the most compelling evidence of design on the earth. |
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T F |
When examining the complexities of the human eye for seeing, it is reasonable to believe that these features are a product of gradual change over long periods of time. |
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T F |
Oakland states that a heart and a brain had to have come on the scene already functioning and it could not have evolved over a period of time. |
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T F |
Here in America evolution is being defended with a greater zeal than ever, while in the Soviet Union it is being challenged less. |
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Oakland agrees that biology students who are not taught evolution are denied the powerful concept of great order and coherence |
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The process of sexual reproduction is improbable for the evolution model. |
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Multiple Choice |
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| 11. | The illustration of the watchmaker is used to make which of the following points? | |
| A | The human body is as complex as a wristwatch | |
| B | The watch has a limited existance as does the human body | |
| C | The watch requires a maker just as does the human being | |
| D | All of the above | |
| 12. | What governs all of a cell's activities and contains the chromosomes which make up the blueprint for future generations? | |
| A | Nucleus | |
| B | DNA | |
| C | Proteins | |
| D | Mitochondria | |
| 13. | The lesson estimates that the DNA of six billion people could be contained in what? | |
| A | A container the size of a shoebox | |
| B | A container of undetermined size | |
| C | A container the size of coffee cup | |
| D | A container the size of an aspirin tablet | |
| 14. | What changed Oakland's belief that mutations helped to shape and form new life? | |
| A | The results from experimentation with Drosophila | |
| B | The tragic loss of his newborn child due to severe mutation | |
| C | The knowledge that we live in an imperfect, fallen world | |
| D | None of the above | |
| 15. | What term describes the process whereby the male and female reproductive organs reproduce themselves by one-half genetically? | |
| A | Fertilization | |
| B | Meiosis | |
| C | Reproduction | |
| D | Ventriculation | |
| 16. | What conclusion did Dr. Michael Beehe make after learning that eight million bacterial motors would fit in the cross-section of a human hair? | |
| A | Examination of life at the molecular level reveals design that could not possibly have assembled spontaneously | |
| B | Biochemical studies are inconclusive regarding spontaneous chance process | |
| C | Bacteria were one of the first life forms to evolve from chemicals and will continue to multiply with time | |
| D | None of the above | |
| 17 | What does Oakland say happens when he presents evidence for a Creator to the people of the Soviet Union? | |
| A | The evidence challenged by the majority of the listeners in the audience | |
| B | The evidence is not challenged at all due to a lack of interest | |
| C | The evidence is mocked at because the audience is primarily athestic | |
| D | The evidence is often accepted by people who were forced to accept evolution | |
| 18. | Who said, "The only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way"? | |
| A | Richard Leakey | |
| B | John Reader | |
| C | Richard Dawkins | |
| D | Charles Darwin | |
| 19. | Which of the following Bible verses testify of God the Creator being pleased with His creation? | |
| A | Genesis 1:1 | |
| B | Genesis 1:21 | |
| C | Psalm 115:15 | |
| D | Psalm 121:2 | |
| 20. | What made the concept of the intelligent design of life become immensely attractive to a sceintist named Kenyon? | |
| A | His discovery that there is not the slightest chance of a chemical evolutionary origin for even the simplest of cells | |
| B | His own theory of self-organization had failed to explain the origin of genetic information | |
| C | His understanding of intelligent design very closely matched the multiple discoveries of molecular biology | |
| D | All of the above | |
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