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evolution within kinds of organisms over time as they reproduce (with the original kind not changing), amounting to varieties / diversities within the kind (E. G., 2 “dogs” producing coyotes, foxes, wolves, jackals, dingoes, and domestic dogs over time)
What is microevolution?
The upper leg bone
What is the femur?
This book of the Bible named after its main character describes what appear to be a sauropod dinosaur called Behemoth and a dinosaur-like marine reptile called Leviathan.
What is the Book of Job?
fish that spend most of their lives in freshwater (like rivers and lakes)
What are freshwater fish?
As the fountains of the deep were broken up and magma spilled onto the ocean floor, the sea level would have risen and caused this event.
What is a global flood?
An area located at the earth's pole that is covered with ice
What is a polar ice cap?
To design and build things that are useful to humans
What is engineering?
Even atheists admit that virtually every culture in the world has ancient legends about this creature that humans saw and with which they interacted.
What are dragons?
The amount of salt that is present in a liquid
What is salinity?
When the plants on Earth were killed in the Flood, many of their remains, including these, would have floated on the surface of the water and once the waters receded they would have begun growing.
What are seeds?
drawings found on rocks
What are petroglyphs?
the wood Noah used to build the ark
What is Gopher wood?
The Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia has a carving of an animal that looks very much like this type of dinosaur.
What is a stegosaurus?
The scientific study of fish
What is ichthyology?
Not every "species" was on the Ark because God commanded Noah to bring two of every this (probably representatives of genus or family).
What is "kind"?
A fossilized skeleton whose bones are found still connected in their proper original order (as when it was alive)
What is an articulated skeleton?
a creature that reproduces itself without mating with another Organism (reproduction that does not involve the union of gametes, or reproductive sales)
What is asexual?
The Anasazi Indians of North America made a drawing at Kachina Bridge that depicts what clearly looks like this kind of dinosaur.
What is an apatosaurus?
a vertical column of horizontal layers of water with different salinity levels
What is a halocline?
The average size of an adult dinosaur was about the size of this animal
What is an American Bison?
The process in which an Organism becomes accustomed to a new environmental condition
What is acclimation?
A joint made of a peg (tenon) built to fit within a hole / slot (mortise)
What is a Mortise and tenon joint?
These burial "stones" from an Indian culture that lived in Peru over 900 years ago depict their culture as well as interactions between humans and what are clearly anatomically correct dinosaurs.
What are Ica stones?
A fish able to live in a wide range of water salinity levels
What is an euryhaline?
Scientists believe that well over half of the oxygen we breath is from these.
What are ocean plants?