Creation Science
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Setting the Stage
First Steps4 Steps -
1. An Overview of Everything7 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "Is Genesis History?" (110 min)
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Read the Guide to the Film
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Write Essay: The Structure of the Film
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Read "Why Time Matters to the Origins Debate"
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Watch "Exploring Paradigms and Design" (22 min) - Dr. Paul Nelson
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Project: Compare the Two Primary Views of Earth History
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Go Deeper: Watch "Comparing the Two Paradigms of Earth History" - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture (57 min)
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Watch "Is Genesis History?" (110 min)
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2. What is Science?7 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "A Path Through the Experts"
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Watch "Why I am a Creationist" - Various Scientists
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Project: Research a Scientist
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Read "History, Science, and Authority"
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Watch "How Should Christians View Science?" (12 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Read "What is Science?" - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Go Deeper: Watch "Creationism in the 21st Century" - Dr. Todd Wood Conf Lecture (44 min)
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Read "A Path Through the Experts"
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3. The Biblical Record10 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "Why Genesis is Truly History" (22 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd
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Read "The Doctrine of Creation"
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Watch "Overview of the First Chapters of Genesis" (16 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd
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Read "A Proper Reading of Genesis 1:1-2:3" in Thousands...Not Billions
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Read "Should Genesis 1 & 2 Be Taken Literally?"
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Go Deeper: Watch "How Do We Know Genesis is True?" - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture (44 min)
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Go Deeper: Read "The Genre of Genesis 1:1–2:3: What Means This Text?"
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Go Deeper: Watch "Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 Narrative or Poetry?" - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture (46 min)
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Commentary from Del & the Director on filming Dr. Steve Boyd (10 min)
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Project: Link Science and Scripture
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Watch "Why Genesis is Truly History" (22 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd
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Advanced Topics: Biblical Authority to Philosophy of Science6 Steps
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Watch "How did the Authority of Scripture get Dethroned?" (58 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture
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Watch "Literary Structures in the Flood Account" (54 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture
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Watch "Intro to Old Testament Studies" (49 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture
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Watch "Intro to Old Testament Theology" (65 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture
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Watch "Importance of Literary Structure" (59 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture
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Watch "Philosophy of Science" (63 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture
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Watch "How did the Authority of Scripture get Dethroned?" (58 min) - Dr. Steve Boyd Conf Lecture
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Understanding the Flood4. The Cause of the Flood8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read two chapters from The New Creationism
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Watch "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics" (21 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling
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Read about Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
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Watch "Introduction to Catastrophic Plate Tectonics" Conf Lecture (48 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Go Deeper: Watch "Geophysics of the Flood" - Conf Lecture (130 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Go Deeper: Read two technical papers on Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
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Go Deeper: Watch "Continental Sprint" (65 min) - Dr. Steve Austin Conf Lecture
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Project: Explaining Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
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Read two chapters from The New Creationism
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5. The Evidence for the Flood8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "The Doctrine of Judgment"
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Watch "The Grand Staircase" (18 min) - Dr. Steve Austin
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Watch "Grand Canyon: Desert View & the Colorado River" (18 min) - Dr. Steve Austin
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Watch "The Great Unconformity & Megasequences" (18 min) - Dr. Steve Austin
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Read about The Geologic Column
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Read "Why Do Some Christians Think Noah’s Flood Was Local?"
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Sedimentology of the Flood" - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture (90 min)
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Commentary from Del & the Director on filming Dr. Steve Austin (12 min)
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Read "The Doctrine of Judgment"
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6. Catastrophes in the Past7 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "What Actually Happened at Mount St. Helens?"
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Watch "Catastrophic Geology" (21 min)
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Watch "Mount St. Helens - Spirit Lake and the Floating Log Mat" (19 min)
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Read "Mount St. Helens and Catastrophism" by Dr. Steve Austin
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Go Deeper: Watch "Mount St. Helens: Explosive Evidence" (61 min) - Dr. Steve Austin Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Read articles from Dr. Steve Austin on various catastrophes
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming at Mount St. Helens (12 min)
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Read "What Actually Happened at Mount St. Helens?"
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7. The Fossil Record - Part 18 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "What Does the Fossil Record Show About the History of the Earth?"
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Watch "An Overview of the Rocks and Fossils" (23 min) - Dr. Marcus Ross
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Read "Why are Fossil Footprints Curious Evidence for the Flood?"
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Watch "The Fossil Record and Design" (22 min) - Dr. Marcus Ross
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Read "Fossil Graveyards Everywhere"
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Fossil Record" (64 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Read about Fossilization
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Commentary from Del & the Director on filming Dr. Marcus Ross (11 min)
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Read "What Does the Fossil Record Show About the History of the Earth?"
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8. The Fossil Record - Part 27 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "10,000 Dinosaurs in 1 Meter of Mud"
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Watch "Exploring Fossils and Paleocurrents" (21 min) - Dr. Art Chadwick
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Watch "Catastrophe & Complexity" (20 min) - Dr. Art Chadwick
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Watch "Fossil Nautiloids" (18 min) - Dr. Steve Austin
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Behind the Scenes: Filming Steve Austin's Nautiloid Fossils
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Paleontology of the Flood" (70 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming Dr. Art Chadwick
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Read "10,000 Dinosaurs in 1 Meter of Mud"
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9. The Age of Things: Evidence for a Young Earth8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "Evidence for a Young Earth" (19 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling
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Read "A Youthful Creation" in the New Creationism
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Watch "Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Bones" (21 min) - Dr. Kevin Anderson
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Read "Does the Age of the Earth Matter to the Gospel?"
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Watch "Dating the Earth" (54 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Age of Things" (62 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Read Evidence for a Young Earth from Earth's Catastrophic Past Vol 2 (Books Chapters)
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming Kevin Anderson
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Watch "Evidence for a Young Earth" (19 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling
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10. The Age of Things: Radioisotope Dating7 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "Radioisotope Dating - Part 1" (23 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling
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Watch "Radioisotope Dating - Part 2" (18 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling
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Read "Thousands...Not Billions" (Book)
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Go Deeper: Read "Radiometric Dating Methods" by Dr. Andrew Snelling
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Go Deeper: Watch "Radiometric Dating: Relative, not Absolute Ages" (79 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Watch "Radiocarbon: In need of Recalibration" (52 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling Conf Lecture
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Commentary from Del & the Director on Filming Dr. Andrew Snelling
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Watch "Radioisotope Dating - Part 1" (23 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling
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11. The Natural History of the Earth9 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "The History of Life" (19 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Watch "Evidence of the Catastrophic Past" (22 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Watch "The Rapid Formation of Coal" (18 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Watch "The Order of the Fossils" (21 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Watch "After the Flood & the Nature of Science" (20 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Read "History of Life" by Dr. Kurt Wise
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Go Deeper: Watch "Pre-Flood Hydrothermal Biome" (65 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Read "The Hydrothermal Biome: A Pre-Flood Environment" - Kurt Wise ICC Technical Paper
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming Dr. Kurt Wise
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Watch "The History of Life" (19 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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12. The Post-Flood Period8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "What was the World Like After the Flood?"
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Read "The Post-Flood World"
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Watch "The Ice Age & Climate Change" (20 min) - Dr. Larry Vardiman
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Read about the Ice Age (Book Chapter)
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Post-Flood Period" (74 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Read "From the Ice Age to the Present World" - Dr. Andrew Snelling
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Go Deeper: Read "Hypercanes Following the Genesis Flood" - Dr. Larry Vardiman ICC Technical Paper
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Go Deeper: Read "The Potential for and Implications of Widespread Post-Flood Erosion and Mass Wasting Processes" - Dr. John Whimore ICC Technical Paper
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Read "What was the World Like After the Flood?"
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Advanced Topics: Precambrian Rocks to Flood Boundaries7 Steps
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Watch "Precambrian Rocks: Record of the Creation & Pre-Flood Eras" (28 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling Conf Lecture
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Read "North American Precambrian Geology: A Proposed Young Earth Biblical Model" - ICC Technical Paper
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Watch "The Sedimentology of the Flood" (90 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise Conf Lecture
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Watch "The Pre-Flood/Flood Boundary" (42 min) - Dr. Steve Austin Conf Lecture
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Read "The Pre-Flood / Flood Boundary: As Defined in Grand Canyon and East Mojave" - ICC Technical Paper
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Watch "The Flood/Post-Flood Boundary" (53 min) - Dr. Steve Austin Conf Lecture
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Read "Using Suites of Criteria to Recognize Pre-Flood, Flood, and Post-Flood Strata in the Rock Record with Application to Wyoming (USA)" - John Whitmore & Paul Garner ICC Technical Paper
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Watch "Precambrian Rocks: Record of the Creation & Pre-Flood Eras" (28 min) - Dr. Andrew Snelling Conf Lecture
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Understanding Life & Design13. Intelligent Design in Nature9 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "How the Natural Realm Reflects God" (15 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Read selections from "The Living God" in Devotional Biology
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Watch "Intelligent Design in Nature" (20 min) - Dr. Paul Nelson
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Watch "Amazing Relationships Throughout Creation" (21 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Read about the Biomatrix in Devotional Biology
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Watch "The Design of Animals & People" (20 min) - Dr. Stuart Burgess
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Read "Complete Optimum Design" in Hallmarks of Design
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Go Deeper: Watch "Introduction to Creation Biology" (65 min) - Dr. Todd Wood Conf. Lecture
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming Paul Nelson
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Watch "How the Natural Realm Reflects God" (15 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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14. Created Kinds: Living Creatures8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "Introduction to Created Kinds" (16 min) - Dr. Todd Wood
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Read about Created Kinds in The New Creationism
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Watch "The Power of Natural Selection" (16 min) - Dr. Todd Wood
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Read two chapters on created kinds in Hallmarks of Design
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Watch "The Origin of Flight & Mosaic Animals" (10 min) - Dr. Todd Wood
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Read "The Irreducible Flight Mechanisms of Birds" in Hallmarks of Design
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Go Deeper: Watch "Created Kinds" (47 min) - Dr. Todd Wood Conf. Lecture
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Wonders of Biological Change" (60 min) - Dr. Todd Wood Conf. Lecture
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Watch "Introduction to Created Kinds" (16 min) - Dr. Todd Wood
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15. Created Kinds: Humans7 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "The Doctrine of the Image of God"
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Watch "Humans & Apes" (12 min) - Dr. Todd Wood
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Read "Confusion, Cavemen, and Culture" from The New Creationism
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Watch "Ape Men & Adam" (47 min) - Dr. Todd Wood Conf Lecture
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Read Chapter 4 "God is Distinct" in Devotional Biology
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Go Deeper: Watch "Human Genomes" (56 min) - Dr. Todd Wood Conf Lecture
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming Todd Wood
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Read "The Doctrine of the Image of God"
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16. Diversity, Design, & DNA8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "Diversity & Design in the Ocean" (21 min) - Dr. Rob Carter
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Watch "Evolution, Creation, and the Order of Species" (18 min) - Dr. Rob Carter
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Watch "The Extraordinary Design of DNA" (22 min) - Dr. Rob Carter
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Read about DNA in Devotional Biology
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Watch "Evolution & Mutations" (21 min) - Dr. Kevin Anderson
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Read "Evolution" from Devotional Biology
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Biochemical Basis of Life" (47 min) - Dr. Joe Deweese Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Watch "Examining Mutations & Natural Selection" (40 min) - Dr. Joe Deweese Conf Lecture
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Watch "Diversity & Design in the Ocean" (21 min) - Dr. Rob Carter
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17. A World of Beauty & Death8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Read "The Glory of God" from Devotional Biology
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Watch "Biological Beauty" (32 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Read "The Doctrine of the Fall"
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Watch "The Curse" (21 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Read "Defects & Degeneration" from The New Creationism
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Read "Biological Evil" from Devotional Biology
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Watch "Biological Evil" (22 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Go Deeper: Watch "Death & Natural Evil" (33 min) - Dr. Todd Wood Conf Lecture
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Read "The Glory of God" from Devotional Biology
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Advanced Topics: Molecular Biology to Genomes2 Steps
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Understanding the Stars18. The Design of the Earth & the Solar System8 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "The Extraordinary Design of the Universe" (21 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner
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Read "The Heavens and the Earth" from The New Creationism
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Watch "The Design of Earth & Stars" (19 min) - Dr. Stuart Burgess
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Read "The Provider God" from Devotional Biology
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Watch "The Anthropic Principle & the Earth" (25 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Watch "The Anthropic Principle & the Solar System" (25 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Anthropic Principle & Atoms" (29 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Go Deeper: Watch "The Anthropic Principle & Molecules" (37 min) - Dr. Kurt Wise
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Watch "The Extraordinary Design of the Universe" (21 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner
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19. Competing Cosmologies5 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "The Light Travel Time Problem & the Big Bang" (21 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner
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Read "Universe By Design"
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Watch: "Biblical Cosmology" (44 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: Read or Listen to "The Current State of Creation Astronomy II" - Dr. Danny Faulkner ICC Lecture
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming Danny Faulkner
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Watch "The Light Travel Time Problem & the Big Bang" (21 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner
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Advanced Topics: UFOs to Black Holes5 Steps
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Watch "Aliens and UFOs" (49 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture
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Watch "Biblical Astronomy" (56 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture
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Watch "Extra Solar Planets" (65 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture
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Watch "Countering Flat Earth" (76 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture
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Watch "Black Holes, Dark Matter, & Dark Energy" (59 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture
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Watch "Aliens and UFOs" (49 min) - Dr. Danny Faulkner Conf Lecture
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Understanding Archeology & Culture20. The Tower of Babel5 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "Identifying the Tower of Babel" (23 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich
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Watch "Carbon Dating & the Septuagint" (17 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich
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Go Deeper: "Identifying Babel and its Tower" (51 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich Conf Lecture
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Go Deeper: "Identifying the Post-Babel Dispersion" (55 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich Conf Lecture
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Commentary from Del and the Director on filming Doug Petrovich
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Watch "Identifying the Tower of Babel" (23 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich
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21. The Culture of Genesis5 Steps|1 Quiz
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22. The Church & Genesis6 Steps|1 Quiz
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Watch "The History of the Church on Creation & Evolution" (18 min) - Dr. Doug Kelly
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Read "Theistic Evolution"
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Watch "The Importance of the Doctrine of Creation" (18 min) - Dr. Doug Kelly
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Read "What does the Rest of the Bible Say About Genesis?"
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Watch "Answering Common Questions about the Text of Genesis" (17 min) - Dr. Doug Kelly
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Watch "Understanding the Genre & Theology of Genesis" (22 min) - Dr. Doug Kelly
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Watch "The History of the Church on Creation & Evolution" (18 min) - Dr. Doug Kelly
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Advanced Topics: Biblical Archeology to the Hebrew Alphabet4 Steps
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Watch "Introduction to Biblical Archeology" (58 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich Conf Lecture
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Watch "Jacob and Joseph in Egypt" (66 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich Conf Lecture
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Watch "Manasseh & Ephraim in Egypt" (54 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich Conf Lecture
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Watch "Hebrew as the First Alphabet" (53 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich Conf Lecture
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Watch "Introduction to Biblical Archeology" (58 min) - Dr. Doug Petrovich Conf Lecture
Project: Compare the Two Primary Views of Earth History
For this project, you will answer each question below to explain the differences between the two views. You can write these out, or just answer them in your head. Use the dropdown under each question to reveal the answers. At the end, there are additional questions that you can answer to explore the logical consequences of holding the different views.
A Bit of Background
There are two basic views concerning the history of the earth, with the essential difference being their views oftime.
- The young earth, Historical Genesis view says the earth and universe are less than 10,000 years old and that the events recorded in Genesis happened in a literal way.
- The old earth, Conventional view says the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and the universe is 13.7 billion years old, with differing parts of Genesis 1-11 being symbolic or non-literal.
All who hold to the Conventional view agree on what may be termed cosmic evolution or development (the first 9 billion years of the universe) as well as geological evolution or development (the next 4.5 billion years when the earth was forming). They agree on the Big Bang, the formation of atoms to planetesimals to galaxies, how volcanic forces shaped the earth over billions of years, and the deposition of the fossil record over long ages as oceans slowly transgressed and regressed many times over the continents. They agree there was a local flood in the Middle East at some point in the last 10,000 years which was recorded in near eastern literature.
In other words, there is enormous agreement on all the primary events that happened during the 13.7 billion years of the history of the universe.
There are, nevertheless, variations within the Conventional view in terms of the causes of some events and the appearance and development of biological life. Within the Conventional view, there are three different approaches to these questions:
- Progressive Creation– God created complex marine and animal life in 20+ unique but progressive creation events every 20-30 million years, with numerous extinction events happening throughout the last 540 million years.
- Theistic Evolution– God created bacterial life that He guided over billions of years to evolve into all the life that has lived on this planet. Instead of unique creations, God used a form of descent from a common bacterial ancestor.
- Atheistic Evolution– After the spontaneous appearance of life, mutations and natural selection acted over billions of years to evolve into everything that has lived on this planet. Nothing is created, but everything alive today descended from a common bacterial ancestor.
We will try to note any distinctions under the Conventional view below. The point of this exercise is to try to reveal the differences between the two views in terms of the natural history of the world.
Please note: One criticism of the film argues it creates a false dichotomy by positing only two basic views of history. The fact that within the conventional view there is agreement concerning 96% of the events that occurred in the astronomical and geological history of the world for the first 13.1 billion years, including much of biological life and extinction over the next 0.6 billion years, demonstrates there is really just one view of history with slight variations. Those variations in causality and biology occur only within 4% of their history of the world (the last 540 million years).
Key Points of Comparison:
Historical Genesis
3 normal days of rapid transformation from a water ball to a livable biosphere.
Conventional
4 billion years of slow development from accretion of planetesimals, to a molten ball, to a livable biosphere.
Historical Genesis
1 day; on the fourth day God formed the universe, the sun, and the moon.
Conventional
Over 10 billion years; about 4.5 billion years ago, our solar system slowly emerged out of a swirling cloud of gas and dust; first came the sun, then the earth, and finally the moon over hundreds of millions of years.
Historical Genesis
A day is a normal rotation of the earth marked by mornings and evenings, just like we experience every day.
Conventional
A “day” is a symbol that stands for varying periods of time lasting from hundreds of millions of years to billions of years; or, it is not meant to refer to normal time.
Historical Genesis
God created all the unique kinds of plants and animals over 3 days, designing them to reproduce according to their particular kinds. (Plants on Day 3; Fish/Birds on Day 5; Animals/People on Day 6)
Conventional
Progressive Creation– God created unique plants and animals during 20+ progressive creation events over hundreds of millions of years.
Theistic/Atheistic Evolution– God/random chance developed all living creatures from a common bacterial ancestor over billions of years; there are no unique creations of kinds.
Historical Genesis
God created man out of the dust, and woman out of man on the sixth day of creation.
Conventional
Progressive Creation– God uniquely created a man from the dust and a woman from man 50,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Theistic/Atheistic Evolution– God/random chance developed a group of pre-human hominids and the first man and woman were either chosen out of this group, or are symbolic ideas for that group of hominids.
Historical Genesis
Death entered the world as a result of Adam’s disobedience, affecting both men and animals. At the same time, God cursed the creation with a “bondage to decay” (Romans 8). Prior to the Fall, there was no human or animal death, and the creation was “good.”
Conventional
Animal death existed for over 500 million years before Adam and Eve; this resulted in the death of billions of animals and the extinction of thousands of species.
Progressive Creation– Human death was the result of the disobedience of Adam.
Theistic/Atheistic Evolution– Human death occurred before the disobedience of Adam, and is actually an important aspect of evolutionary development by natural selection.
Historical Genesis
The genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 are accurate records of father-son relationships from Adam to Noah to Abraham and can be used to track time.
Conventional
The genealogies represent a small percentage of the father-son- grandson line; up to 90% or more of the genealogical links are missing, so they cannot be used to track time. Some think the genealogies are symbolic.
Historical Genesis
The Flood was a global catastrophe where the floodwaters covered the tops of the mountains existing at that time in history.
Conventional
The Flood was a local/regional catastrophe somewhere in the Middle East; it did not affect the entire world.
Historical Genesis
Yes, all humans, birds, and land animals died during the Flood, with the exception of Noah, his family, and the animals on the Ark.
Conventional
No one holds that all land animals and birds died. Some hold that all humans died, but not all animals and birds. Others hold that only humans, animals, and birds living in the region affected by the flood died.
Historical Genesis
Yes, there was a real confusion of languages that led to a dispersion of people around the world.
Conventional
Some hold that there was a real confusion of languages and a real dispersion. Others hold that this was a symbolic event and that human language evolved over tens of thousands of years.
As you can see, there are significant differences between these two basic views. These differences result in major consequences for how one interprets the Bible. We will see how those views work themselves out in the lessons to come.
Additional Questions to Answer:
Are these views of history able to be reconciled with one another, or are they each telling a different story? Is there truly a conflict? What events in the conventional view don’t fit with specific comments of Biblical authors?
Write out your answers to each of these questions. These are designed for you to follow out a line of thinking to its logical conclusions.
- God declared the Creation to be “good” when He finished with each day. How does that fit with the idea of millions of years of death?
- In the fourth Commandment, God bases our normal week of six days of work and one day of rest on the seven days of the Creation week. Why does this comparison make it difficult to interpret the days as long ages or as symbols?
- Paul talks about a real Adam and Eve sinning. What does that mean for those who believe Adam and Eve are symbolic?
- Paul says that death came as a result of Adam’s disobedience, and that the creation is in bondage to decay. How does that fit with the idea of death before Adam?
- Jesus compares His second coming with Noah’s flood. How does a local flood change the meaning of Jesus’ comparison?
- God promises to Noah never to flood the earth again in the same way. If the flood was a local flood, and local floods are still happening, what does that mean for God’s promises?
- Peter talks about the Creation and the destruction of the world by the flood as two things that people want to ignore or forget. Why is that?