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What are the two models that we use to examine the age of the earth/universe?

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1) Creationists Model
2) Evolutionist Model

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How do we use the creationists model to determine the age of the universe/earth?

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By the genealogies in the Bible and Scriptural events

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Who was the person who pushed the creationist model?

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Archbishop James Ussher

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What was the date of creation according to Archbishop James Ussher?

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4004 BC

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How do we use the evolutionist model to determine the age of the universe/earth?

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The Big Bang

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What long ago did the Big Bang take place according to the Evolutionist model?

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13.8 billion years

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How old is the earth/universe according to the evolutionist model?

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4.56 billion years

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Who were the 2 people that pushed evolution and the evolutionist model?

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1) George Cuvier
2) Charles Lyell

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Who believed in catastrophism and no supernatural?

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George Cuvier

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What 3 things did Charles Lyell believe in?

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1) Principles of geology
2) Establishes uniformitarianism
3) Ages of earth reaches into the millions

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What was Charles Lyell’s key phrase?

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The present is the key to the past

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When was the discovery of radioactive decay?

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Early 1900s

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When was radiometric dating developed?

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Mid-1900s

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T/F The age of the earth jumped to 4.56 million years once radiometric dating came around?

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True

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What are the 3 supposed evidences for the old age of the earth?

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1) Uniformitarianism
2) Radiometric dating
3) Necessary

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What are the 2 supposed evidences for the old age of the universe?

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1) Distant starlight
2) Necessary

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What passage refutes uniformitarianism?

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2 Peter 3:3-4

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What is the notion that high-magnitude events have played an important role in landscape evolution?

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Neocatastrophism

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What is the process of estimating the age of the rocks from the decay of their radioactive isotopes?

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Radiometric dating

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How do you measure a half-life?

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By the time it takes for 1/2 of parent element to decay into daughter element

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What does radiometric dating provide?

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A natural clock

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What are the 2 types of radiometric dating?

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1) Hot rocks that cool
2) Fossils (organic material)

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What are the two hot rocks that cool and can be radiometric dated?

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1) Igneous rock
2) Metamorphic rock

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What type of dating is used on fossils or organic material?

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C-14 dating

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T/F Measure daughter element (nitrogen-14) but compare C-14 to C-12?
False, do not measure
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What is the age of a C-14 half-life?
5,730 years old
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After death C-14 decays into N-14, what element remains stable throughout the process?
C-12
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T/F Ratio of C-14 to C-12 is measurable and changes over time?
True
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What kind of rock surrounds fossils?
Sedimentary
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T/F Sedimentary rocks can be radiometrically dated?
False, they CANNOT be!!
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What does everything under the evolutionist model require?
Time
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What is a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference?
Axiom
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What is it called when we can see galaxies from Earth that are billions of light years away?
Distant starlight
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What is a light year?
It is a measurement of distance; it is the distance light can travel in one year
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C = ?
the speed of light
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How fast can the speed of light (C) travel?
186,000 miles per second
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How far can light travel in a year?
6,000,000,000,000 miles
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What is the primary reference that proves God stretched the Heavens?
Isaiah 45:12
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What is the speed of light may have been greater in the past?
Speed of light decay (CDK)
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Who proposed the speed of light decay (CDK)?
Dr. Danny Faulkner
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What is it called when time may have flowed(s) more slowly on the earth than anywhere else in the universe?
Gravitational time delusion (GTD)
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Who proposed the Gravitational time delusion (GTD)?
Dr. Humphries
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Who believed that the earth was in the center of the universe?
Dr. Humphries
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Who believed that all gravity was around earth in what we call a gravitational well?
Dr. Humphries
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T/F We can verify that we are in the center of the universe?
False, we cannot that is the problem with GTD explanation
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What is the instantaneous one-way travel of light, but round-trip equals speed of light?
Anisotropic Synchrony Convention (ASC)
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Who proposed Anisotropic Synchrony Convention (ASC)?
Dr. Jason Lisle
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What are the 3 problems with the Big Bang?
1) Horizon problem 2) Missing monopoles 3) Missing hypothetical entities
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T/F Temperature of universe should be uneven?
False, temperature is uniform
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What is generally referred to as "exotic" non-baryonic matter that interacts only weakly with ordinary matter?
Dark Matter
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What was the date of the earth chosen on?
The Hubble Constant
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What is the Hubble Constant?
The value is based on the red shift observed in light from gases in galaxies
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T/F The Hubble Constant keeps changing?
True
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T/F Radiometric dating is the only method of finding age?
False, it is one of many
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What are the 7 measurement clocks we use to measure age?
1) Existence of spiral galaxies 2) Existence of blue stars 3) Our young solar system 4) Helium 5) Not enough mud on the sea floor 6) Lack of salt in the Ocean 7) Earth magnetic field is decaying too fast
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What is the rescuing device for the existence of spiral galaxies?
Pressure waves
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What is the rescuing device for the existence of blue stars?
Star birthing areas
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What is the rescuing devices for comets in our young solar system?
1) Oort cloud (never seen) 2) Kuiper Belt (not enough nuclei)
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T/F Empirical science shows support for an old universe/earth?
False, it shows its problems and supports a young earth/universe
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What is the half-life of earth's magnetic field?
1,465 years
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How long would it take for all the salt to accumulate on the ocean floor?
62 million years
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How long do evolutionists require for all the salt to accumulate on the ocean floor?
3 billion years
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What rock is helium still found in?
Zircon
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T/F There is not enough helium in the atmosphere?
True
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What is the definition of the creation model for how life began?
Life created by God (Intelligent source)
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What is the definition of the evolution model for how life began?
Began by natural processes
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The Creation model says what?
Life comes from life
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The Evolution model says what?
Life comes from non-life
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What is it when plants, animals, and microorganisms arose suddenly from non-living materials under certain environmental conditions?
Spontaneous generation
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Who did the meat and maggots experiment?
Francesco Redi
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Who did the broth and bacteria experiment?
Louis Pasteur
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What is the law of Biogenesis?
Life originates only from preexisting life
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Evolution's explanation for present day earth?
Biogenesis is the only explanation for first life
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Evolution's explanation for primordial earth?
Conditions allowed for life from non-life
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What is it called when chemicals are involved in order to create life?
Chemical evolution (abiogenesis)
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T/F In order for evolution to be true - life must have come from non-life?
True
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What experiment showed "proof" of chemical evolution/abiogenesis?
Miller-Urey experiment
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What 4 elements did the Miller-Urey experiment use?
1) Methane 2) Hydrogen gas 3) Ammonia 4) Water
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Why did the Miller-Urey experiment use methane, Hydrogen gas, Ammonia, and Water?
Because they assumed they were in earth's first atmosphere
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T/F Amino acids are not fundamental to the formation and working of a cell?
False, they are
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T/F If you can make amino acids you can make life?
False, you have to have the right kind of amino acids
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T/F The Miller-Urey used the wrong kind of amino acids?
True
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Amino acids are what?
Left and right handed
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What amino acids are required for life?
Left handed
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T/F The Miller-Urey experiment produced both kinds of amino acids?
True
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Right-handed amino acids are what to life?
Lethal
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What is a membrane-enclosed collection of molecules that takes up material and replicates life?
Protocell
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What is the idea that all of life has come from a common ancestor through a process of modification?
Biological evolution
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Who made biological evolution famous?
Charles Darwin
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When did Darwin publish origin of Species?
1859
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When did Darwin publish The Descent of Man?
1871
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What ship did Darwin sale on?
HMS Beagle
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What 5 things influenced Charles Darwin?
1) Grandfather Erasmus Darwin 2) Charles Lyell 3) Domestication of animals (variation) 4) Theologians 5) Death of Daughter
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What did many theologians during Darwin's time believe?
Nature trumps Scripture
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What is the full title of Darwin's first book?
On the origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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Origins of Species set the foundation for what?
Racism
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Darwin believed in what?
No limits to change/variations
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What is the preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations?
Natural selection
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What 5 things did Darwin say when natural selection occurs?
1) Individuals within species are variable 2) Some of these variations are passed on to offspring 3) In every generation, more offspring are produced than can survive 4) The survival and reproduction of individuals are not random 5) Summarized as survival of the fittest
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Who first proposed natural selection?
Edward Blyth
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Natural selection allows for what?
Survival in a fallen world
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T/F Natural selection can only "select" for (or against) something that already exists?
True
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Fill in blank: Natural selection can only _______; it ________ creates?
1) Conserve 2) Never
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What were the dates that Edward Blyth published Magazine of Natural History?
1835 and 1837
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What is an inheritance of acquired characteristics?
Lamarckism
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What is a human classification term?
Species
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What is a group of similar organisms which interbreed freely in nature?
Species
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What is a Genesis classification term?
Kind (min)
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What is a biological capability of producing offspring, and may involve reproduction between two different species?
Kind
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What does Bara mean?
created
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What does min mean?
kind
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What does -ology mean?
study of
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What does Baraminology mean?
Study of created kinds
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Who proposed that the scablands formed rapidly?
J. Harlen Bretz

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