History of the World
What are pieces of the earth's crust?
Tectonic plates
Which planet disproves the nebular hypothesis?
What is the name of the process that produced rapid movements of tectonic plates very quickly
Catastrophic plate tectonics
What are rock layers called?
Strata
What has made us realize that the continents were once joined.
The direction of magnetic crystals in the crust
According to the Old-Earth story, how did the earth get liquid water?
Ice comets crashing into earth
What does the diluvial time scale show us?
Fossils are ordered based off of how they escaped the flood
Stellar disk
Near the top
After a small planet crashed into the earth, what do secular scientists believe was added to the earth?
Mass was added to the earth's core
From a young-earth perspective, what event most likely formed the most fossils due to rapid burial?
The flood
What is a problem with the day-age theory?
The Hebrew word for day is translated to a literal 24-hour period
How long could we have lasted without sun, moon, and stars?
The genealogies in the Bible suggest the earth is 7000 years old.
What are three problems with using the geologic column to date the earth
1. No one spot has all of the rock layers
2. In some places, the rock layers are out of order
3. Some fossils are found in multiple layers at once
According to the nebular hypothesis, dense and rocky planets should be where?
Near the sun
Day 0 - Noah loads up the ark
Day 7 - God closes the door to ark, the fountains of the deep open, and torrential rain starts
Day 47 - the rain stops, mountains are covered by at least 22-27 feet of water
Day 157- Water begins to recede
Day 227 - tops of mountains emerge
Day 267 - Noah sends out a raven and a dove; the raven returns
Day 274 - Noah sends out a dove, which returns with an olive leaf
Day 281 - Noah sends out a dove that does not return
Day 316 - Noah opens the roof and sees no more water
Day 371 - Noah and all the animals get off the ark
What are two problems with believing in the Gap Theory?
The Bible does not say that there was a time period between these two verses
There cannot be death before sin
What is paleontology?
The study of the evolution of life
What is the nebular hypothesis?
A hypothesis that predicts that everything formed form the nebula spins or orbits in the same direction as the original nebula?
Give a list, in order, of what God made during Creation
Day 1 - created light and separated it from the darkness
Day 2 - Separated the waters from the sky
Day 3 - dry land and plants
Day 4 - sun, moon, and stars
Day 5 - flying and swimming creatures
Day 6 - Land creatures and humans
Day 7 - rest
What are the three issues I gave you for the problems with believing in theistic evolution?
Puts a limit on what God can create
The flood has no scientific significance
The Bible says that God created everything during the first week