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Giving people an explanation for life.
What is the importance of origin stories?
100
One of the four fundamental forces produced by the Big Bang, responsible for all molecular interactions.
What is Electromagnetism?
100
A chemical element with six protons.
What is Carbon?
100
A spherical ball of rock, gas, or both, that's orbiting around a star.
What is a Planet?
100
A meteorite hit Earth and killed off almost all life at the time, including dinosaurs
What was the K-T extinction event?
200
Evidence, Logic, Intuition, and Authority.
What are the four claim testers?
200
Electromagnetism, Gravity, Weak Nuclear Force, Strong Nuclear Force.
What are the four fundamental forces produced by the Big Bang?
200
State of matter in which protons and electrons are not bound together.
What is Plasma?
200
A Vast super-continent formed more than 200 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
200
Photosynthesis, eukaryotes, multi-celled organisms, brains, movement to land, mammals
What are the 6 mini thresholds, in order?
300
The study of the universe on it's largest scale, including its origin.
What is the definition of cosmology?
300
The view that the Earth is at the center of the Universe.
What is the Geocentric View?
300
Main Sequence
What stage does a star spend most of it's life?
300
Earth's first era in which Earth was unsuitable to life.
What is the Hadean Eon?
300
Natural Selection and Adaptation
What are the two main concepts of Darwin's theory of Evolution?
400
A point at which something begins or changes.
What is a threshold?
400
Light moving away from the observer in a red color, proving the universe is expanding.
What is Red Shift?
400
main sequence, super giant, supernova, and either a black hole or a neutron star
What is the life cycle of a high mass star?
400
Sideways and downward motion of one plate to another.
What is Subduction?
400
Nerve cells clumped together as they needed a way to coordinate activities
What caused brains to develop?
500
Converge, conflict, and contrast.
What are ways science and faith interact?
500
When plasma cooled, light energy is released 380,000 years after the big bang, proving the Big Bang Theory.
What is Cosmic Background Radiation?
500
Main Sequence, Red Giant, Planetary Nebula, White Dwarf, Black Dwarf.
What is the life cycle of a low mass star?
500
Molten Lava, Asteroids, Lack of Oxygen, Radiation.
What are problems humans would face in early earth?
500
the most recent organism from which all organisms now living descended from
What is a last universal common ancestor?
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