Searching for the Truth on Origins

Exam #7: Human Origins, The Evolutionary Perspective

True or False

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Evolutionists are able to verify the lineage of man through science.
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National Geographic gave evidence of two groups of human beings at different levels of the evolutionary development.
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Anthropologists who are evolutionists have suggested that Lucy is nothing more than a chimpanzee and does not deserve a place in the lineage of man.
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Eugene Dubois discovered the missing link between ape and man, known as Java Man
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Scientists discovered that the brain capacity of Piltdown Man was actually larger than man's
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Unlike the creationist view, the theory of evolution is constantly being upgraded.
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Much of the education community is geared to reeducating children so that they will disbelieve that there is a Creator.
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There are billions of people today who do not believe there is a Creator; they believe in evolution and that there is no Redeemer.
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A difficulty with the proposed lineage between apelike creatures and man is that there are none alive today.
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Footprints that were dated 3.75 million years old were found by Mary Leakey in volcanic material in Kenya. These footprints looked exactly like human footprints because they are human footprints.
   

Multiple Choice

11.   Which of the following models was reconstructed by scientists from fossil fragments of a skull?
  A Ape Man
B Homo Erectus
C Ramapithecus
  D Nebraska Man
 
12.   What example was given as evidence for the existence of Homo Habiblis?
  A A full-size model that was reconstructed from fossils
  B An artist's illustration displayed in a science museum
  C An African native wearing a mask
  D None of the above
 
13.   According to the textbook, "The Human Odyssey," which of the following are listed as cousins to the human race?
  A Lemurs
  B Gibbons
  C Tarsiers
  D All of the above
14.   What was the term given for the ape-like creatures that existed in the lineage before modern man?
  A Intermediates
  B Lucy and Ricky
  C Primates
  D Kinsmen
 
15.   Who said, "Education is the great liberator. It frees us to think objectively. My studies have taught me that all humans have a common origin and therefore a common destiny"?
  A Richard Leakey
  B Roger Oakland
  C Walter Cronkite
  D Donald Johanson
 
16.   Which of the following was formulated based on two portions of jawbone?
A Ramapithecus
B Australopithecus
C Pithecanthropus
  D Neanderthal
 
17   America's attempt at finding the missing link in the 1930s proved embarrassing due to what?
  A Discovering that the jawbone was actually a donkey's
  B Discovering the tooth found actually came from an extinct pig
  C Discovering that the big toe found was that of a gibbon
  D All of the above
 
18.   Charles Dawson found a skullcap and later a jawbone in a gravel pit which he formulated into a model known as what?
  A Ardipithecus Ramidus
  B Piltdown Man
  C Neanderthal Man
  D The Missing Link
 
19.   In the British Museum of Natural History, Oakland heard a five-year-old child declare that Adam and Eve were not apes. What was her mother's response?
  A The mother told her child that she had never believed the Bible
  B The mother told her child that they were ancestors of Adam and Eve who were apes
  C The mother told her child that she was young and would believe in evolution when she got older
  D The mother told her child that Adam and Eve were mythological
 
20.   Lord Zuckerman maintains that the arbitrary system of dating fossils cannot be considered a science. What passage of Scripture deals with this?
  A 1 Timothy 6
  B Isaiah 55
  C Genesis 1
  D 2 Peter 2
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