Terms and Definitions
The time it takes for half a sample of radioactive atoms to decay.
What is half-life?
Generally speaking, all of the groups but the young-earth creationists (YEC) are ___________________.
What are uniformitarians?
Young-earth creationists typically split the geological record into these three sections.
What pre-Flood, Flood, and Post-Flood rocks?
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient story from ___________________ that contains a ____________ story.
What is Mesopotamia? What is Flood?
Atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.
What are Isotopes?
The view that most of the crust's features are the result of slow, gradual processes that have been at work for millions or even billions of years.
What is Uniformitarianism?
This group thinks that the world has a designer, but they are unwilling to speculate on the nature of the designer in a lot of their interactions with the broader scientific community.
BONUS QUESTION (Double your points): Some prominent scientists have proposed that ______________ ___________ designed life and then transported it to Earth.
What are Intelligent Design advocates?
Bonus: What are space aliens?
For Uniformitarians, the Cambrian rocks represent a distinct geological period in the history of the earth. In the YEC view, the rocks formed before the Cambrian are thought to be rocks from the _______________ ___________ and local ___________________ that happened prior to the Flood.
What are original creation and catastrophes?
Most modern-day catastrophists are _________________ who believe that the ____________________ gives an accurate account of the earth's history.
What are Christians? What is the Bible?
Radioactive decay in which a proton absorbs an electron to become a neutron.
What is electron capture?
A vent in the earth's surface that ejects a column of hot water and steam.
What is a geyser?
This group thinks that all organisms are related to one another by evolution, but God either started the process so that it would all work or guided the process along.
What are theistic evolutionists?
This would be the explanation for the majority of the geological column in the YEC view.
What are sedimentary rocks that were laid down during the Flood?
BONUS (worth 2X the points): According to the YEC view, there was only one ____________ (think of the ground sloth character named Sid in a popular animated movie series), and it occurred ______________the Flood.
What is the Ice Age? What is after the Flood?
In radioactivity, the electrons are not important. The ____________ is what is really important when it comes to radioactivity.
What is the nucleus?
The view that most of the crust's features are the result of large-scale catastrophes such as floods, volcanic eruptions, etc.
What is Catastrophism?
This group thinks that God had to supernaturally create organisms, but He did so over a long time span. Advocates of this view usually believe that the six days of creation represent millions of years each, or that the creation account in Genesis gives us a literary framework, not a literal account of what happened at creation.
What are old-earth creationists?
According to YECs, dinosaur fossils were formed __________________ the Flood and Mammoth fossils formed ___________ the Flood.
What are during and after?
The Epic of Gilgamesh, which contains a Flood account involving Utnapishtim, was originally written in _______________, which was used in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
In the Carbon-12 atom (C12 ), the number 12 represents the number of _______________ and ________________ in the nucleus of the atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
An isotope that is unstable and eventually decays to become a different atom.
What is a radioactive isotope?
This group thinks that everything we see is the result of only natural processes working over billions of years from the Big Bang (approximately 13.8 billion years ago) to the evolution of humans on the earth (around 300,000 years ago).
What are atheists?
YECs think that the reference in Genesis 7 to "fountains of the great deep" bursting open during the Flood were likely a large opening similar to a _____________________ _________, but on a much larger scale.
What is a Hydrothermal vent?
According to Dr. Duane Gish, there are more than _____ separate worldwide Flood accounts from various cultures throughout the world.
What is 250?
In Experiment 8.2: Half Life, the 60 pennies in the container represented _____________ ____________ ____________.
What are radioactive carbon isotopes?