Age of the Creation

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Age of the Creation

Quiz for Creation Apologetics course by Mr. Ashcraft

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1. According to a poll of 1000 twenty year olds who have left the Church, what part of the Bible made most question its reliability? *

1 point

a. The miracles of Jesus’

b. The creation account

c. The young Biblical age of the Earth

d. Too many rules

2. The ancient age of the Earth is based primarily on an interpretation on what body of scientific finding? *

1 point

a. Ice cores from the polar regions

b. The fossil record

c. Tree ring studies known as dendrochronology

d. Sediment and mineral accumulations in the ocean

e. All of the above

3. The dates of Biblical events are calculated from what information? *

1 point

a. Radiometric dating

b. Synchronizing ancient Egyptian and Biblical dates

c. The ages given in the genealogical records of patriarchs in the Bible

d. Carbon-14 dating

4. What is the possible Biblical age of the Earth?

1 point

a. 6025

b. 12,025

c. 6,000,006,025

d. We cannot know since 2 Peter 3:8 says ”With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day”

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5. The period of time described by the Hebrew word for day (Yom) is best interpreted … *

1 point

a. Using the exegetical analysis of the word Yom elsewhere in scripture.

b. Through the overwhelming scientific evidence for an old Earth age.

c. As an ordinary day because the author of Genesis defines Yom using the phrase “evening and morning”.

d. When scripture is enlightened by current scientific knowledge (Eisegesis).

e. Both a and c

f. Both b and d

6. Radiometric dating is based on what process? *

1 point

a. Radio wave transmissions that have been detected coming from asteroid metrics.

b. The decay rates of radioactive elements

c. Magnetic rocks on the ocean flood that show radiometric reversals

d. Mutation rates produced by cosmic bombardments

7. Radiometric dating has numerous problems, which include? *

1 point

a. Dates from various techniques are often in conflict – producing vastly different dates.

b. Rocks that are obviously newer (i.e. at the rim of the Grand Canyon) have dated older than those much deeper in the fossil record (Precambrian).

c. The technique relies on numerous unsupported assumptions including: Original amount of parent isotope, Original amount of daughter isotope, Constant decay rates, Closed system.

d. All of the above.

8. Fossilized soft tissues is much more consistent with what process? *

1 point

a. Burial by sediments in low oxygen environments where decomposition rates are lower.

b. Rapid burial by sediments before decomposition could take place.

c. They were preserved by freezing temperatures during the ice age.

d. Slow and gradual accumulations that would not destroy such material.

9. What measurements are used by natural science to place absolute ages to the Earth and its geological epochs of time? *

1 point

a. The speed of light measured in lightyears

b. Erosion and sediment deposition rates

c. Geomagnetic and seismic

d. Radioisotopes and their decay rates

10. What two ocean components are found in insufficient quantities to support the view that the Earth is billions of years old? *

1 point

a. Sediment and Salt

b. Phytoplankton (Algae) and Zooplankton

c. Silica and Calcium Carbonate

d. Diatoms and Shellfish debris

11. Strata (layers of rock) are found in what condition that argues against the layers forming separated by millions of years? *

1 point

a. Folded without fracturing which would not happen if they were already old and hardened before being bent.

b. Insufficient quantities are present to account for millions of years of accumulation.

c. The layers are basically all the same – composed of same materials and containing the same fossils.

d. Some layers can be traced for hundreds – even thousands – of miles, which could not happen slowly and gradually.

12. Fossils are found in what condition arguing that the sediments did not accumulate slowly over long periods of time? *

1 point

a. Many are found on the tops of mountains where sediments do not accumulate.

b. Soft tissues have been fossilized showing that time was not available for decomposition.

c. They have no radioisotopes that place them beyond the timeline of the Biblical flood.

d. In massive volumes of sediments could only form catastrophically – not slowly and gradually.

13. Based on assumptions that Earth was young, the RATE Group (from the Institute for Creation Research and Creation Research Society) looked for what product of nuclear decay in Zircon crystals. *

1 point

a. Lead

b. Uranium

c. Carbon-14

d. Helium

14. Carbon-14 (which has a half-life of only 5,730 years) has been reported by numerous scientific journals in samples such as fossils, coal, oil, and natural gas. Where did the RATE group find C-14? *

1 point

a. Comets

b. From the medullary cavity of a Tyrannosaurus thigh bone

c. Diamonds

d. Moon rocks

15. How do comets provide an example of a young solar system? *

1 point

a. They burn up (vaporize) with each close pass to the sun and shouldn’t be present in solar system that is billions of years old.

b. They produced radiometric dates of less than 50,000 years old.

c. They produce an enormous magnetic field, which should have dissipated long ago.

d. Scientists have been unable to provide a theory to account for their existence in an ancient solar system.

16. Hundreds of physical processes can be used to set an upper limit on the age of the Earth or solar system. Which of these was NOT mentioned as an example? *

1 point

a. There is insufficient erosion in canyons and on the sea flood to account for billions of years of tectonic uplift.

b. The composition of the sun’s core should change through time gradually increasing the sun’s temperature, which would place the Earth below freezing temperatures when life was evolving.

c. The Earth magnetic field is quickly wearing down. At the current rate, the field and thus the earth could be no older than 20,000 years old.

d. At present rates, today’s ocean saltiness would be reached in only 42 million years—about 1/70 the three billion years evolutionists propose

17. The recession of the Moon away from the Earth is another age indicator that places the solar system well below 4.6 billion years of age. How is the moon distance determined? *

1 point

a. Tide measurements show a consistent decrease in size and severity.

b. By measuring the centripetal force of the moon using a Foucault pendulum

c. Using laser ranging retroreflectors placed on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts, etc.

d. dr/dt = k/r6 where k is a constant and r is the distance.

18. The Lazarus bacteria was discovered in a salt crystal dated at 250 million years old. What were they found to have that challenges this date? *

1 point

a. An outboard motor called the flagellum

b. DNA that normally breaks down quickly, and which was very similar to the DNA in modern bacteria.

c. A molecular turbine called the ATP Synthase

d. Resistance to modern viruses

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