The History of the Earth Flashcards
What are the three major events that happened in the history of the earth which shaped the earth as we see it today?
Creation, curse, and the flood
What are the two major camps of belief for the origin the earth?
Creation and evolution
True or False Only creation is a religion.Evolution is not
False
What is another name for a religion?
Belief system
What do both religions require?
Faith
What are the three questions that religion seeks to answer?
Where did we come from? Where are we going? How shall we live?
Christianity answers to the 3 questions
Where did we come from? God made you.
How shall we live? Love God love others.
Where are we going? Heaven or hell
Evolution answer to religion questions
Where did we come from? Common ancestors
How shall we live? Survival of the fittest
Where are we going? To nothing.
List the religions following aspects
Supernatural/deity
Worship
Code/book
Faith
Values/ethics
Answer the religion aspects for Christianity
God the Trinity
Our creator
Bible
Gods word/the work of Jesus
Love God love others
Answer the religion aspects for Evolution
Natural laws
The created
Science literature
Themselves
Survival of the fittest
Recite Romans 1:20
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.
Science acts on what two things
The measurable and testable 
What does science seek to explain
Natural phenomena
Why can science not reconstruct the happenings of the past
There are too many variables and unknowns
How do people know that God exists?
God created the world/creation
Do all people accept that God exists?
No
What are some examples in this passage that explain how all people do not accept the existence of God?
By not glorifying Him, not being thankful, exchanging the truth of God for a lie
What do people worship in place of God?
Idols
What are some examples of things that are worshipped in place of God?Name 5 examples
Golden calf, sports, people, fortune, birdwatching,
How does evolution relate to this passage?
Like the golden calf, evolution gives us a story of where we came from
What is creation?
A supernatural event in which Gos created and everything and He did it out of nothing.He simply spoke it into existence
What does Hebrews 11:3 say about faith
We must have faith in the creation story and Gos because science can’t prove it
What is another term for out of nothing?
Ex Nihilo
What did God make on day 1
Day and night
What did God make on day 2
Space sky
What did God make on day 3
Seas, dry land, plants
What did God make on day 4
Sun,moon,and stars
What did God make on day 5
Creature of the sky and sea
What did God make on day 6
Land, animals, and men
What did God do on day 7
Rest
What is a proposed age of the earth?(scientific)
4.5billion years old
What is a proposed age of the earth?(biblically)
6-10 k
True/False Some have taken the Bible and science as unequal authorities and concluded that the earth is who knows when years old.
False
Why should science not be the foundation of the Bible?
Because the Bible should be the fountain of science
Give a brief summary of the curse/fall
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. 
What are the 6 changes that happened to the earth as a result of the cure (negatively)
Snakes crawl on their belly
Strife in marriage
Woman painfully bear children(and maybe raising)
Labor is toil
Spiritual war
Death
What are the 2 blessings that are a result of the curse
The promise of the Messiah
Tunics of skin(Jesus)
Why did the flood happen
The wickedness of man
When did the flood occur?
About 1650 years after Eve gave birth to Seth, around 2000-3000 b.c.
In Gen 7:18-24 it says that the water covered the mountains.Why would the water fill the whole world
Water seeks a uniform depth, so the water would have a uniform depth all the way around the world
In the flood did anyone survive?
All life on earth died except the people and animals on the ark as well as aquatic organisms
Was the flood global?
Yes
What would have happened to the fountains of the deep due to the flood
The fountains of the deep would have blasted open the earth
What could have happened to the continents?
The continents would have rapidly moved apart
What would happen to ocean basins due to the flood
Ocean basins would have deepened
What would happen to massive quantities of sediments
Massive quantities of sediments would have been moved and deposited
How would huge fossil beds be made?
Huge numbers of animals would have been buried making coal, oil deposits, and fossil beds
What would have eroded large canyons?
Large quantities of water draining off the land into the ocean basins would have eroded large canyons
What is the definition of micro evolution
The change in populations of organisms over time
Is micro evolution within a kind or jumping kinds
Within a kind
What is the definition of Macroevolution?
The process by which large scale changes occur in populations by natural processes over time
Is macro evolution within a kind or jumping kinds
Jumping kinds
What is the definition of species
Animals that can breed and make viable offspring
What are the 4things that scientist only believe in?What do they have in common
Time
Space
Matter
Energy
they are measurable and are the only things that can be tested scientifically
What do materialists believe
Only matter exists
What does naturalistic thought say
Only natural causes exist (God did not step into creation,create anything, and run things)
What does supernatural mean
Over or outside of nature
The theory of natural selection and genetic mutations states what?
The theory of natural selection and genetic mutations states that all things have come about by random happenings and natural processes
Natural ?= natural ?
Natural pressures =natural selection
What is the the idea of natural selection ?
Natural selection is the idea that the organisms that survive long enough to have offspring are that will pass their genetics to their offspring
What are genetic mutations thought to give?
Genetic mutations are thought to give the differences between individual organisms upon which natural selection can work
What is natural selection caused by
Breeding choices of animals, predation, weather changes, loss of food sources , introduction of new species, habitat changes, diseases
Evolution is said To have been occurring for how many years?
4.5 billion years old
Human ancestors are supposed to have split from apes about how many years ago?
4 million years ago
Modern man is supposed to have evolved how many years ago?
100,000 years ago
Why are the long dates needed for?
The long dates are needed for the slow changes of evolution to occur (uniformitarianism)
Geology and biology operate in a what king of framework
Uniformitarianistic
What is the view of uniformitarianism
The view of uniformitarianism is that the processes occurring today are the same ones that have always shaped the earth or organisms
What are the 9 biblical points that must be rejected if evolution is true
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
What is the definition of dating with genealogies?
To establish dates by examining historical records
Who were two men who computed the creation of the earth based on genealogical records?List their final date for it
Johannes Kepler 4977b.c.
James Ussher 4004b.c.
What makes dating with genealogies difficult?
Determine whether God has given us a complete list of names of genealogies
What is radioactivity
The breakdown of a particular substance
How do substances that are radioactive lose material?
Substances that are radioactive lose material as the atoms of that substance break apart and pieces fly away
Why is radioactivity dangerous?
Because the flying pieces can damage your body
The amount of time that scientists calculate a particular amount of time would lose 1/2 much of its material.What is this called?
Half life
Scientists assume what two things are constant
The decay rate of the substance and the percentage of radioactive materials in a substance
By knowing what two things so scientists feel they can closely estimate the age of a particular artifact
The percentage of radioactive material that is left and it’s half life
What is the breakdown of nuclei in atoms called
Radioactivity
True/False When a radioactive material decays it becomes another element
True
What are the two assumptions that must be made when using radioactive material
The radioactive material is 100% parent material and there is a constant decay rate
How many neutrons and protons do alpha particles have
2 protons and neutrons
How many electrons do beta particles have
1 electron
What is a component of gamma rays
Light
