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What are the three major events that happened in the history of the earth which shaped the earth as we see it today?

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Creation, curse, and the flood

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What are the two major camps of belief for the origin the earth?

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Creation and evolution

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True or False Only creation is a religion.Evolution is not

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False

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What is another name for a religion?

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Belief system

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What do both religions require?

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Faith

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What are the three questions that religion seeks to answer?

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Where did we come from? Where are we going? How shall we live?

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Christianity answers to the 3 questions

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Where did we come from? God made you.
How shall we live? Love God love others.
Where are we going? Heaven or hell

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Evolution answer to religion questions

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Where did we come from? Common ancestors
How shall we live? Survival of the fittest
Where are we going? To nothing.

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List the religions following aspects

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Supernatural/deity
Worship
Code/book
Faith
Values/ethics

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Answer the religion aspects for Christianity

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God the Trinity
Our creator
Bible
Gods word/the work of Jesus
Love God love others

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Answer the religion aspects for Evolution

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Natural laws
The created
Science literature
Themselves
Survival of the fittest

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Recite Romans 1:20

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For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

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Science acts on what two things

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The measurable and testable 

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What does science seek to explain

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Natural phenomena

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Why can science not reconstruct the happenings of the past

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There are too many variables and unknowns

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How do people know that God exists?

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God created the world/creation

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Do all people accept that God exists?

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No

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What are some examples in this passage that explain how all people do not accept the existence of God?

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By not glorifying Him, not being thankful, exchanging the truth of God for a lie

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What do people worship in place of God?

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Idols

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What are some examples of things that are worshipped in place of God?Name 5 examples

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Golden calf, sports, people, fortune, birdwatching,

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How does evolution relate to this passage?

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Like the golden calf, evolution gives us a story of where we came from

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What is creation?

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A supernatural event in which Gos created and everything and He did it out of nothing.He simply spoke it into existence

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What does Hebrews 11:3 say about faith

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We must have faith in the creation story and Gos because science can’t prove it

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What is another term for out of nothing?

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Ex Nihilo

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25
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What did God make on day 1

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Day and night

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What did God make on day 2

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Space sky

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What did God make on day 3

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Seas, dry land, plants

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What did God make on day 4

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Sun,moon,and stars

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What did God make on day 5

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Creature of the sky and sea

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What did God make on day 6

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Land, animals, and men

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What did God do on day 7

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Rest

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32
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What is a proposed age of the earth?(scientific)

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4.5billion years old

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33
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What is a proposed age of the earth?(biblically)

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6-10 k

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34
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True/False Some have taken the Bible and science as unequal authorities and concluded that the earth is who knows when years old.

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False

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35
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Why should science not be the foundation of the Bible?

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Because the Bible should be the fountain of science

36
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Give a brief summary of the curse/fall

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The earth was perfect in every way until Adam sinned. After Adams sin, death and disease entered the earth, and it has not been the same sense. 

37
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What are the 6 changes that happened to the earth as a result of the cure (negatively)

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Snakes crawl on their belly
Strife in marriage
Woman painfully bear children(and maybe raising)
Labor is toil
Spiritual war
Death

38
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What are the 2 blessings that are a result of the curse

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The promise of the Messiah
Tunics of skin(Jesus)

39
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Why did the flood happen

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The wickedness of man

40
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When did the flood occur?

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About 1650 years after Eve gave birth to Seth, around 2000-3000 b.c.

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In Gen 7:18-24 it says that the water covered the mountains.Why would the water fill the whole world

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Water seeks a uniform depth, so the water would have a uniform depth all the way around the world

42
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In the flood did anyone survive?

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All life on earth died except the people and animals on the ark as well as aquatic organisms

43
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Was the flood global?

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Yes

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What would have happened to the fountains of the deep due to the flood

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The fountains of the deep would have blasted open the earth

45
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What could have happened to the continents?

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The continents would have rapidly moved apart

46
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What would happen to ocean basins due to the flood

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Ocean basins would have deepened

47
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What would happen to massive quantities of sediments

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Massive quantities of sediments would have been moved and deposited

48
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How would huge fossil beds be made?

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Huge numbers of animals would have been buried making coal, oil deposits, and fossil beds

49
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What would have eroded large canyons?

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Large quantities of water draining off the land into the ocean basins would have eroded large canyons

50
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What is the definition of micro evolution

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The change in populations of organisms over time

51
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Is micro evolution within a kind or jumping kinds

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Within a kind

52
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What is the definition of Macroevolution?

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The process by which large scale changes occur in populations by natural processes over time

53
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Is macro evolution within a kind or jumping kinds

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Jumping kinds

54
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What is the definition of species

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Animals that can breed and make viable offspring

55
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What are the 4things that scientist only believe in?What do they have in common

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Time
Space
Matter
Energy
they are measurable and are the only things that can be tested scientifically

56
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What do materialists believe

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Only matter exists

57
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What does naturalistic thought say

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Only natural causes exist (God did not step into creation,create anything, and run things)

58
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What does supernatural mean

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Over or outside of nature

59
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The theory of natural selection and genetic mutations states what?

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The theory of natural selection and genetic mutations states that all things have come about by random happenings and natural processes

60
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Natural ?= natural ?

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Natural pressures =natural selection

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What is the the idea of natural selection ?

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Natural selection is the idea that the organisms that survive long enough to have offspring are that will pass their genetics to their offspring

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What are genetic mutations thought to give?

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Genetic mutations are thought to give the differences between individual organisms upon which natural selection can work

63
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What is natural selection caused by

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Breeding choices of animals, predation, weather changes, loss of food sources , introduction of new species, habitat changes, diseases

64
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Evolution is said To have been occurring for how many years?

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4.5 billion years old

65
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Human ancestors are supposed to have split from apes about how many years ago?

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4 million years ago

66
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Modern man is supposed to have evolved how many years ago?

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100,000 years ago

67
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Why are the long dates needed for?

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The long dates are needed for the slow changes of evolution to occur (uniformitarianism)

68
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Geology and biology operate in a what king of framework

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Uniformitarianistic

69
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What is the view of uniformitarianism

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The view of uniformitarianism is that the processes occurring today are the same ones that have always shaped the earth or organisms

70
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What are the 9 biblical points that must be rejected if evolution is true

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1 marriage
2 gender equality
3 nobility of work
4value of children
5 sin
6 Jesus/Promise of redeemer
7 a standard truth/right or wrong
8 clothes
9 made in image of God

71
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What is the definition of dating with genealogies?

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To establish dates by examining historical records

72
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Who were two men who computed the creation of the earth based on genealogical records?List their final date for it

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Johannes Kepler 4977b.c.
James Ussher 4004b.c.

73
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What makes dating with genealogies difficult?

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Determine whether God has given us a complete list of names of genealogies

74
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What is radioactivity

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The breakdown of a particular substance

75
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How do substances that are radioactive lose material?

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Substances that are radioactive lose material as the atoms of that substance break apart and pieces fly away

76
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Why is radioactivity dangerous?

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Because the flying pieces can damage your body

77
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The amount of time that scientists calculate a particular amount of time would lose 1/2 much of its material.What is this called?

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Half life

78
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Scientists assume what two things are constant

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The decay rate of the substance and the percentage of radioactive materials in a substance

79
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By knowing what two things so scientists feel they can closely estimate the age of a particular artifact

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The percentage of radioactive material that is left and it’s half life

80
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What is the breakdown of nuclei in atoms called

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Radioactivity

81
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True/False When a radioactive material decays it becomes another element

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True

82
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What are the two assumptions that must be made when using radioactive material

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The radioactive material is 100% parent material and there is a constant decay rate

83
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How many neutrons and protons do alpha particles have

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2 protons and neutrons

84
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How many electrons do beta particles have

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1 electron

85
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What is a component of gamma rays

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Light

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