Evolution

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In order to accewpt evolution as a real process, you cannot believe in God.

False

Biological, medical, and agricultural reserach increasinly assumes that evolution occurs.

True

Evolution has been tested and challenged many times, but has always been supported by the results.

True

Evolution involves individuals changing in order to adapt to their environment.

True

Evolution is a totally random process, a series of accidents.

True

Evolution is also known as "Natural Selection".

True

Evolution is as much a fact as the fact that planets go around the Sun.

True

Evolution is like a chain, with each group of organisms evolving into the next "link" in the chain.

True

Evolution simply means "change".

True

Most major religions in America have officially declared that they have NO conflict with evolution.

True

The formation of complex structures, like hte eye, can now be easily explained by evolution.

True

There are many transitional fossils, with traits intermediate between different groups, as expected if evolution happened.

True

Most of the major groups of animals suddenly appeared in the "Cambrian Explosion".

false

According to evolution, new species usually result from major mutations in a single generation.

False

According to evolution, people came from monkeys a long time ago.

False

Big dinosaurs were common during the time of early humans.

False

Evolution is a process that includes the origin of life.

False

Evolution is only a theory.

False

Evolution is primarily concerned with the origin of humans.

False

Evolution is something should either believe in or not believe in.

False

Evolution is something that happened only in the past; it is not happening now.

False

Evolution is something that happens to individual organisms.

False

Evolution was developed as an idea to destroy or undermine religion.

False

Evolution was first proposed and explained by Charles Darwin.

False

Fossils reveal many problems that evolution cannot explain.

False


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