BIOLOGY AND EMERGING SCIENCES - GEOLOGY

Question 1

who published the chronology of human history

Answer 1

James Ussher

Question 2

When did the Divine creation begin?

Answer 2

oct 23rd 12 noon

Question 3

______ event in human history shaped the the Earth significantly according to the implications of the Genesis

Answer 3

Flood of Noah

Question 4

How did William Whinston explain Biblical events?

Answer 4

The New Theory of the Earth - explained it by means of cometary events

Question 5

what were the 6 days of creation?

Answer 5

1. Earth was a highly eliptical orbit and the orbit was made more circular by God working through the laws of physics
2. Adam and Eve expulsion from the garden along with a comet hitting earth causing it to tilt and spin
3. The Flood of Noah occurred as the water in the tail of the comet brought about tidal changes and cracked earths surface leading to rise in water levels and flooding
4. The coming conflagration - another comet, atmosphere stripped, raise interior molten and more elliptical earth
5. The consummation - Christ will reign for 1000 years then battle of armageddon and then another hit from a comet and earth back into a highly elliptical orbit

Question 6

Benoit De Maillet wrote _____

Answer 6

Telliamed

Question 7

What were the ideas in Telliamed

Answer 7

• earth has seen eternal cycles
• oceans once COVERED the earth
• the origin and evolution of life

Question 8

Buffon attempted to integrate the Earths origins with a theory of ____

Answer 8

geological change

Question 9

What was the Problem of Extinction in regards to fossils

Answer 9

The idea of fossils is in variance with the creation by an all powerful god for a specific purpose

Question 10

Robert Hooke a Genesis skeptic - what did he believe in?

Answer 10

Hooke believed that:
- sedimentary rocks are not remains of the flood
- earths movements causes reformation of the surface exposing marine layers
- extinction is real

Question 11

What is the stratagraphical principle of superposition

Answer 11

In a sequence of undisturbed sedimentary rock layers, the oldest layers are at the bottom, and the youngest layers are at the top

Question 12

What was Neptunism?

Answer 12

• attempt to understand geological formations especially mountains as a consequence of receding oceans and precipitating minerals from the ocean
• stratagraphical principle of superposition

Question 13

What was Plutonism?

Answer 13

It was an attempt to understand geological changes as a means of the internal heat

Question 14

Theory of Earth with Proofs and Illustrations was written by ____

Answer 14

James Hutton

Question 15

_____ wrote a book to bring forth the huttonian school of thought

Answer 15

John Playfair

Question 16

What did Hutton argue for in his book?

Answer 16

1. Uniformitarianism
   - implied that geological changes are slow and constant and happening all the times
2. Geo cycles and a steady earth
   - continental mountains erode and deposit sediments at the ocean surface
   - this creates molten magma
   - this leads to formation of new continents

Question 17

______ was 19th centurys most imp textbook on Geology by Charles Lyell

Answer 17

Principles of Geo

Question 18

____ and ___ assembled the first strata colum

Answer 18

Georges Cuvier and William Smith

Question 19

What were the main findings/ observations about the stratagraphical column

Answer 19

1. Fossils arent a jumble can help determine the relative dates of the geo starta
2. based on 2 things - principle of superpositiona nd
3. Biological significance - diff sites can be related in temporal way

Question 20

what were the diff debates in the 19th century about the geo change

Answer 20

1. Rate of Geological change
   - uniformitarianism = slow steady and constant change
   - catastrophism = rapid large scale changes and relative changelessness
2. Direction of geo change
   - directional = neptunists and buffon
   - cyclic steady = hutton and lyell