[A quiz written by fundies, for fundies]
<a href="http://christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/dinoquiz.html " target="_blank">How much do you know about dinosaurs?</a>
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Trick questions. Most of those don't even have a correct answer listed.
The only ones I got right were that fossils can form in less than 100 years, dinosaurs can't be cloned, and that most fossils are marine life.
Number 8
There is no right answer for it, except for the answer they want you to admit. Very sneaky of them.
I've been obsessed with dinosaurs since a kid and I find this test insulting to real scienctists and paleontologists who dedicate their lives to finding what ever scrap of knowledge they can find on these extinct creatures.
P.s. Did anyone notice that the test claims scientists have no way of knowing what dinosaurs look like, yet the illustrations on their site are scientifclly acurate.
Somehow I got 5. 'Course, I punched in answers randomly. I guess that just goes to show how well designed this quiz is. And, you know, science is wrong, because science told me I should have gotten 2 or 3 that way. Oh well, fundies win again...
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So dinosaurs weren't on the ark, they just sprung up after "the flood"? So...evolution doesn't work except when fundies want dinosaurs to pop into existance and go extinct in 5000 years. Sure buddy.
Does anybody know what this 'Flash Fossilization' technique is they are so fond of talking about?
Is this some kind of kit sold at 'Toys 'R Us'?
9 out of 10 after putting my mind in fundie-mode -- missed question #1. Just to comment on something completely different...
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Java is not JavaScript, dummy, and they have nothing to do with one another besides the name similarity, which was just a marketing ploy.
I got 7 "right."
BTW, was I the only one afraid to click on "Find the answer"? Just imagining the megabytes of stupidity lurking behind those links caused me to shudder
I clicked on some of them. I figured if I could turn off my brain enough to take the quiz, I could keep it turned off and read the links.
Redhunter.
'Flash fossilisation' is just coating the outside of an object with minerals, not real fossilisation at all. A few streams have a high enough mineral content to do it naturally, there's one at Knaresborough, England where you can see petrified hats, shoes, soft toys etc. Here's a link:
www.mothershiptonscave.com/the_petrifying_well.htm
Edit: you'll need to cut and paste, I can't make the link work :-(
All right, my answers:
(Explanation: I am using the word "dinosaur" to include birds as well, since they're considered to be living dinosaurs)
(Further explanation: I happen to be a Christian myself, and some of my answers will reflect that. However, I'm not a young-earth creationist, nor do I deny evolution.)
From the quiz:
1. In what book of the Bible is a large, land-dwelling dinosaur mentioned?
Job, as it mentions the ostrich.
2. Where did most of the dinosaur fossils come from?
Millions of years of dinosaur deaths
3. Approximately how old are most dinosaur fossils?
Excluding birds for the moment, the only correct answer listed would be "200 million years," though in actuality non-avian dinosaurs lasted from about 230 million years ago to 65 million years ago.
4. What did dinosaurs originally eat?
Animals. The earliest dinosaurs were probably carnivores, though many groups of dinosaurs would later become herbivorous.
5. Most fossils in the earth are of:
Sea creatures. Marine organisms tend to fossilize more often then terrestrial ones.
6. Dinosaurs can now be recreated because of:
The extinct ones can't. To make a long story short, there are too many unknowns involved with recreating extinct animals.
7. The only way scientists can tell what dinosaurs really looked like is:
They can't, for extinct ones. However, some good hypotheses can be made from fossil evidence.
8. Where did dinosaurs come from?
On an answer-by-answer basis:
Birds: No, birds are a subset of dinosaurs. Choosing this one is like saying "mammals came from horses."
Fish: Yes, as all tetrapods, including dinosaurs, started as a type of fish.
God: I believe so, though others may not. However, I don't take the ultra-traditionalist approach.
The big bang: Yes, as dinosaurs are part of the universe, which started from the big bang.
9. How quickly can fossils form under ideal contitions?
Not sure on this one; however, the time it takes something to become a fossil has little bearing on its actual age, at least for things on the order of millions of years old.
10. How did dinosaurs fit on Noah's Ark?
You mean like the one that brought back the olive branch? The ones in the local area of the flood (which was probably confined to Mesopotamia) probably weren't too big; they could have been stashed wherever.
And I got a 6 out of 10 for that. (I didn't answer the last question on my last attempt.)
I got 9/10. When I die, am I going to have to report to hell for one day out of every ten, for all eternity?
By the way, some YEC-ists do believe that Noah took dinosaur eggs aboard the Ark. They can't even agree on their own dogma, but it's supposed to be crystal clear to the rest of us.
Random Guy,
(Birds: No, birds are a subset of dinosaurs. Choosing this one is like saying "mammals came from horses.")
Couldn't have said it better myself:)
you've just gotten a little bit more respect for Christians
as opposed to "Xians" on this forum.
Bravo.
In the answers we see stuff like "The Ark ... was so large and complex that it took Noah 120 years to build. Noah used this time to warn people about the Flood and convince them to turn to God and be saved with his family."
Noah was 500 when his sons were born and 600 when the rain started. God told him to build the ark for himself, his wife and his sons and sons' wives, which means his sons were already married when he started on the ark. Where does the 120 years come from?
There's no mention in the Bible of Noah trying to convince people to turn to God, or any indication God intended the offer for anyone else.
They can't even get the Bible part right, much less the science!
I got 10 out of 10. My young earth beliefs are one of the few fundie things still dogmatically clinging to me after 18 years of being raised on young earth videos and ken ham. However they began to slowly let go when I realized: For Christians it doesn't MATTER (or shouldn't) if you're a theistic evolutionist or traditional creationist. The world is here, doesn't matter how it got here. Once I realized that I began being more tolerant and liberal in my thinking. So is docmatic creation views the thing that makes fundies so damn uptight all the time?
Random Guy: You did about as well as I, except of course for obvious reasons on Q8. Also, I thought I should point out the following:
4. What did dinosaurs originally eat?
Animals. The earliest dinosaurs were probably carnivores, though many groups of dinosaurs would later become herbivorous.
So what did those animals eat?
I think the approximate equation for any ecosystem is that 100 tons of vegetation is required to support 10 tons of herbivore that in turn is required to support 1 ton of predator. So the very first dinosaur/s must have eaten plants until there where sufficient numbers to support carnivores.
This was another "trick" question, although I don't think it was intended as such, it's just happens when someone who know SFA about the subject sets the questions.
Whew! Luckily I knew (guessed) fossils could form in about 100 years. Funny how the quiz states that Dinosaurs can't be re-created (fair enough), but that they mostly ate plants...
...also the radiobuttons don' work as they should, I guess the Bible has nothing to offer on form controls.
BobTheDog:
That's because they made a horrible mess of the code. Processing the answers as you enter them rather than doing the whole thing as a batch process is just bad UI design. In fact, that struck me even more than the general stupidity of the quiz (about as fair as a poll test in the Jim Crow South).
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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