Geology

Question 1

How does science Impact the understanding of Divine action? (what increases and what decreases)

Answer 1

Increase in understanding of natural mechanisms
Decreases God of the Gaps

Decrease in Cosmological Intervention
Increase in Cosmological Providentionism

Question 2

How does science Impact the interpretation of Genesis 6–9?

Answer 2

Increase in understanding natural mechanisms
Decrease in scientific concordism

Decrease in the interpretation that the flood is worldwide (global)
Increase in the interpretation that the flood is local (regional)

Question 3

What is the pattern and process in science?

Answer 3

Pattern (observation) are discovered first

Processes (mechanisms) are discovered afterwards

Question 4

Who is St. Augustine?

What are some important theories he had?

Answer 4

354–430 AD/CE 
One of the most important theologian 
Roman Catholics call him "THE theologian" 
•Augustine uses intellectual tool box 
•Doctorine of Original Sin 
•Seed Principle Theories

Question 5

Who is Charles Lyell?

Answer 5

A diest and anti-evoutionist
•Had a huge impact on Darwins
•Uses Principle of Uniformitarianism

Question 6

What is Charles Lyell’s most famous book?

What year?

Answer 6

Principles of Geology

Question 7

What is the principle of uniformitarianism? Who uses it?

Answer 7

Charles Lyell

The history of the earth is understood using the same forces and same intensities

Question 8

By 1850, what did geological mapping look like?

What are the layers?

Answer 8

Like the basic outline we have today

Top: Cenozoic Era (Age of Mammals)
Mesozoic Era (Age of Reptiles)
Bottom: Paleozoic Era (Age of Invertebrates)

Question 9

What is the Gap theory?

What does Genesis 1:1–3 represent?

Answer 9

Geological Time is put in “gap” between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3
Gen 1:1 -Initial Creation
Gen 1:2 -deterioration of the earth (A period of millions of years)
Gen 1:3 -Second Creation (Re-creation in 6 literal days)
FLOOD IS GLOBAL

Question 10

What is the Day-Age Theory?

Answer 10

Days of Genesis 1 are geological periods
•Life from simple to more complex (seen in gen 1 and fossil record)
FLOOD IS LOCAL - Mesopotamian Plain

Question 11

What was the understanding of the Genesis flood in the beginning of the 1800s?

Answer 11

Beginning of 1800: Global Flood is explained only surface features

End of 1800s: Geology makes no reference to Flood

Question 12

What happens to Divine Action as time goes on?

Answer 12

From Interventionism to Providentialism to None

Question 13

What happens to Hermenuetics as time goes on?

Answer 13

Hermeneutical competence increases

Question 14

What happens to Scientific and Historical Concordism as time progresses?

Answer 14

Decreases

Global flood to local flood to Gap and Day-Age theories to none

Question 15

What is the date of the Young Earth Creationists Flood>

Answer 15

2344 BC/E

Question 16

What is the date of the Young Earth Creationists Flood?

Answer 16

2344 BC/E

•Determined by adding up biblical genealogies

Question 17

What are the six stages of the origins of the biblical flood account?

Answer 17

1. real destructive floods
2. Ancient Historiography
3. Israel appears late in ANE and Inherits Flood Motif
4. Israel recycles and reinterprets flood motif
5. Isreal Becomes Literate and Writes Down at least TWO flood accounts
6. J & P Accounts edited together by a redactor (R) to form Gen 6–9

Question 18

Where do the Two sources of flood accounts come from? What time periods were they from?
How were they put together?

Answer 18

•J author (Gen 2: Jawhist Creation account)
–Around 1000 BC/E
• P author (Gen 1: Priestly Creation account)
– Around 500 BC/E

Intertwined by a reactor (R) using alternating verses from J and P accounts

Question 19

What is the Firament?

Answer 19

A solid structure above the earth, NOT outer space

Question 20

What is the Firmament?

Answer 20

A solid structure above the earth, NOT outer space