Over at the Missing Universe Museum website (another Creation/ID website that can provide many many hours of entertainment) they have created an little Evolution Test which they propose students give to teachers to see how they react. As you can probably already imagine, the test is rather silly, and the questions posed are almost entirely ridiculous. However I (as a non educator and non scientist) shall attempt to provide at least reasonably accurate answers.
1. Which evolved first, male or female?
Neither obviously. They evolved at the same time.
2. How many millions of years elapsed between the first male and first female?
Stupid question, see 1.
3. List at least 9 of the false assumptions made with radioactive dating methods.
Err, what? Radioactive dating, and all other methods used to date old and very old stuff are very accurate – if they’re used properly by someone trained in their use. It’s when that simple guideline isn’t followed that the bizarre results Creationists like to crow on about occur.
4. Why hasn’t any extinct creature re-evolved after millions of years?
Because evolution doesn’t work like that. If this sort of thing occurred it would actually disprove evolution.
5. Which came first:
…the eye,
…the eyelid,
…the eyebrow,
…the eye sockets,
…the eye muscles,
…the eye lashes,
…the tear ducts,
…the brain’s interpretation of light?
Which eye? There are many different forms of eye on different creatures. The mammalian eye is very different from the cephalopod eye, which is very different from the eyes of insects.
It also doesn’t take long to realise that there are many perfectly functioning eyes on creatures that don’t have all those parts. How many insects have eyelids, eyebrows, eye lashes or tear ducts?
Lastly, it doesn’t take a lot of research to find a proposed route for evolving a mammalian type eye. Go read a biology website. Or even Wikipedia.
6. How many millions of years between each in question 5?
Well, given that some creatures have eyes that don’t have all those parts, and eyes have existed in one form or another for hundreds of millions of years, then I’d have to say, at least hundreds of millions of years.
7. If we all evolved from a common ancestor, why can’t all the different species mate with one another and produce fertile offspring?
That’s one of the definitions of a species boundary, the inability to interbreed.
8. List any of the millions of creatures in just five stages of its evolution showing the progression of a new organ of any kind. When you have done this, you can collect the millions of dollars in rewards offered for proof of evolution!
Easy, a quick google for the evolution of the elephants trunk leads to this article. Yet again it’s amazing what 5 minutes research and Google can do.
As for the millions of dollars in rewards, give some proof that that exists, and that you will judge it fairly, and I’ll be right over with a big empty suitcase.
9. Why is it that the very things that would prove Evolution (transitional forms) are still missing?
Erm, no, they aren’t. Transitional fossils abound. Is it really asking too much that you take just 5 minutes to Google these things before asking such an inane question?
10. Explain why something as complex as human life could happen by chance, but something as simple as a coin must have a creator. (Show your math solution.)
Because a coin cannot be created by a process of mutation and natural selection. Human life was.
11. Why aren’t any fossils or coal or oil being formed today?
Who says it isn’t? The fact that a tree dies tomorrow and doesn’t turn into coal by next week shows nothing. These things took millions of years. OK, if you think the earth is roughly 6,000-10,000 years old it’s a problem, but it’s just a tad older than that.
12. List 50 vestigial or useless organs or appendages in the human body.
Why 50? Why do you think there are any? What would that prove if there was, or wasn’t?
13. Why hasn’t anyone collected the millions of dollars in rewards for proof of evolution?
Because the reward is almost certainly bogus. Plus, what does that have to do with proving evolution?
14. If life began hundreds of millions of years ago, why is the earth still under populated?
Who says it is? There are many who would claim that there is one species in particular that is vastly over populated (have a guess which one that is?).
15. Why hasn’t evolution duplicated all species on all continents?
Why would it? Evolution throws up creatures that are suited to the environment they find themselves in. Given that each continent has a different environment, the evolutionary pressures are also different and so will generate differing solutions.
There, that wasn’t so hard was it?