Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can be doubted only by those who are
ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or to plain bigotry. By contrast, the mechanisms that bring evolution about certainly need study and clarification. There are no alternatives to evolution as history that can withstand critical examination. Yet we are constantly learning new and important facts about evolutionary mechanisms. Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"
A) Nonargument.
B) Argument; conclusion: By contrast, the mechanisms ... study and clarification.
C) Argument; conclusion: Yet we are constantly ... evolutionary mechanisms.
D) Argument; conclusion: Evolution as a process ... blocks or to plain bigotry.
E) Argument; conclusion: There are no alternatives ... critical examination.
A
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