Devotional Biology
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Introduction & Preface4 Steps
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Chapter 1: Biology for the Believer15 Steps
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1.1 - God Desires to Be Known (25 min video)
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Read Chapter 1.1: Creation and Revelation
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Read Lab Manual: Introduction to Labs...General Safety Procedures
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1.2 - Christian Foundation of Science and Biology (28 min video)
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Read Chapter 1.2: The Origin of Modern Science
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1.3 – Christian Foundation of Science and Biology (36 min video)
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Read Chapter 1.3: What is Science?
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1.4 - Why Study Biology? (25 min video)
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Read Chapter 1.4: Why Study Biology?
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Perform Lab Exercise 1: Tuning Into Creation (3-4 hrs)
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1.5 - Our Kingly and Priestly Responsibilities (24 min video)
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Read Chapter 1.5: Biology and Our Kingship
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1.6 - Our Image and Ministry Responsibilities (17 min video)
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Read Chapter 1.6: Biology and Our Image
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Test - Chapter 1
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1.1 - God Desires to Be Known (25 min video)
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Chapter 2: The Living God: Biological Life14 Steps
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2.1 - Divine Through Animal Life (18 min video)
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Read Chapter 2.1: The Living God
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2.2 - Are Plants Alive? (17 min video)
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Read Chapter 2.2: Biblical Life
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2.3 - The Spectrum of Perfection of Life (13 min video)
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Read Chapter 2.3: The Spectrum of Perfection of Life
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2.4 - The Nature of Life (15 min video)
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Read Chapter 2.4: The Nature of Life
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Perform Lab Exercise 2: The Nature of Life (2-3 hrs)
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2.5 - Origin of Life (28 min video)
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Read Chapter 2.5: The Origin of Life
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2.6 - Our Responsibility (26 min video)
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Read Chapter 2.6: Life: Our Responsibility
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Test - Chapter 2
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2.1 - Divine Through Animal Life (18 min video)
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Chapter 3: God’s Glory: Biological Beauty6 Steps
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Chapter 4: God is Distinct: Biological Discontinuity9 Steps
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4.1 - Biblical Kind (12 min video)
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Read Chapter 4.1: The Uniqueness of God
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4.2 - Baraminology (22 min video)
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Read Chapter 4.2: Baraminology
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4.3 - The Spectrum of Discontinuity (17 min video)
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Read Chapter 4.3: Biological Discontinuity
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4.4 - Origin of Discontinuity (28 min video)
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Read Chapter 4.4: The Origin of Discontinuity
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Test - Chapter 4
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4.1 - Biblical Kind (12 min video)
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Chapter 5: God is Good: Mutualism & Biological Evil10 Steps
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5.1 – Mutualism (27 min video)
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Read Chapter 5.1: God is Good
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5.2 - Curse (21 min video)
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Read Chapter 5.2: Biological Evil
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5.3 - Biological Evil (23 min video)
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Read Chapter 5.3: Negative Effects of the Curse
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5.4 - Our Responsibility to Biological Good & Evil (26 min video)
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Read Chapter 5.4: Goodness of the Creation
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Perform Lab Exercise 4: Biological Relationships (3-4 hours)
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Test - Chapter 5
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5.1 – Mutualism (27 min video)
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Chapter 6: God is Person: Animal Behavior & Personality17 Steps
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6.1 - God is Person, Biological Uniqueness & Activity (32 min video)
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Read Chapter 6.1: God is a Person
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6.2 - Biological Activity II (32 min video)
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Read Chapter 6.2: Biological Activity Continued
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6.3 - Instinctive & Learned Behavior (34 min video)
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Read Chapter 6.3: Biological Intelligence
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6.4 - Animal Intelligence (26 min video)
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Read Chapter 6.4: Biological Intelligence Continued
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6.5 - Animal Will (27 min video)
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Read Chapter 6.5: Organismal Will
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6.6 - Animal Personality (35 min video)
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Read Chapter 6.6: Biological Emotions
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6.7 - The Origin of & Responsibility to Personhood (22 min video)
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Read Chapter 6.7: The Origin of Personality
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Test - Chapter 6
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Perform Lab Exercise 5: Surface Area/Volume Relationships (3-4 hours)
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Perform Lab Exercise 6: Diffusion & Osmosis (4-6 hours)
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6.1 - God is Person, Biological Uniqueness & Activity (32 min video)
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Chapter 7: The Provider God: The Anthropic Principle12 Steps
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7.1 - The Anthropic Principle & the Earth (25 min video)
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Read Chapter 7.1: God is Love
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7.2 - The Anthropic Principle & the Solar System (25 min video)
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Read Chapter 7.2: Solar System Structure
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7.3 - The Anthropic Principle & Atoms (29 min video)
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Read Chapter 7.3: Necessary Small-Scale AP Characteristics
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7.4 - The Anthropic Principle & Molecules (38 min video)
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Read Chapter 7.4: Compounds
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Read Chapter 7: Compounds
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7.5 - The AP: Origins and Responsibilities (24 min video)
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Read Chapter 7.5: Unnecessary AP Characteristics
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Test - Chapter 7
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7.1 - The Anthropic Principle & the Earth (25 min video)
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Chapter 8: The Sustaining God: The Biomatrix8 Steps
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8.1 - The Biomatrix (24 min video)
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Read Chapter 8.1: God is Sustainer
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8.2 - Biogeochemical Cycles (20 min video)
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Read Chapter 8.2: Biogeochemical Cycles
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Perform Lab Exercise 7: Biogeochemical Cycles (6-10 hours)
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8.3 - Kingly Responsibilities (28 min video)
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Read Chapter 8.3: Our Responsibility to the Creation
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Test - Chapter 8
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8.1 - The Biomatrix (24 min video)
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Chapter 9: God is One: Monomers, Biosimilarity, and Biosystems8 Steps
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9.1 - Common Monomers (30 min video)
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Read Chapter 9.1: One God
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9.2 - Similarities and Systems (22 min video)
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Read Chapter 9.2: Similar Structures
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9.3 - Our Responsibility to Biological Unity (17 min video)
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Read Chapter 9.3: Biological Unity: Our Responsibility
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Test - Chapter 9
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Perform Lab Exercise 8: The Microscope (6+ hours)
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9.1 - Common Monomers (30 min video)
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Chapter 10: God is Three: Biodiversity11 Steps
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10.1 - Climatic Variety (14 min video)
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Read Chapter 10: Three Persons...Diversity of Bio Comm.
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10.2 - Land Biome Variety (14 min video)
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Read Chapter 10: Land Biome Variety
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10.3 - Water Biome Variety (15 min video)
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Read Chapter 10: Water Biome Variety
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10.4 - Biodiversity (20 min video)
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Read Chapter 10: Biodiversity...Origin of Disparity
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10.5 - Responsibility to Biodiversity (17 min video)
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Read Chapter 10: Diversity: Our Responsibility
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Test - Chapter 10
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10.1 - Climatic Variety (14 min video)
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Chapter 11: God of Hierarchy: Biological Hierarchy13 Steps
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11.1 - Unified Hierarchy (11 min video)
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Read Chapter 11: Divine Hierarchy
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11.2 - Cell Theory (27 min video)
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Read Chapter 11: Hierarchy of Biological Organization...Unit of Life
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11.3 - Universal Cell Parts (26 min video)
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Read Chapter 11: Traits of all Cells
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Perform Lab Exercise 9: The Cell (4+ hours)
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11.4 - Higher Organization (15 min video)
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Read Chapter 11: Specialized Cell Traits...Why Hierarchy Exists
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11.5 - Netted Hierarchy (28 min video)
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Read Chapter 11: Netted Hierarchy...Responsibility
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Test - Chapter 11
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Perform Lab Exercise 10: Dichotomous Keys (5+ hours)
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11.1 - Unified Hierarchy (11 min video)
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Chapter 12: The Almighty God: Metabolism8 Steps
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12.1 - Types of Metabolism (10 min video)
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Read Chapter 12: Almighty God...Cellular Energy
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12.2 - Photosynthesis I (35 min video)
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Read Chapter 12: Photosynthesis
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12.3 - Photosynthesis II (25 min video)
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Read Chapter 12: Light Dependent Reactions...Responsibility
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Test - Chapter 12
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Perform Lab Exercise 11: Photosynthesis and Plant Design (8+)
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12.1 - Types of Metabolism (10 min video)
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Chapter 13: God the Word: Animal Communication & Language of Life8 Steps
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13.1 - Animal Communication (16 min video)
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Read Chapter 13: The Communicating God...Animal Communication
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13.2 - Myth of DNA & DNA Copying (23 min video)
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Read Chapter 13: The Language of Life
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Perform Lab Exercise 12: DNA Structure and Protein Translation (6-8 hours)
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13.3 - DNA as the Language of Life (32 min video)
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Read Chapter 13: DNA as the Language of Life...Responsibility
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Test - Chapter 13
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13.1 - Animal Communication (16 min video)
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Chapter 14: God’s Fullness: Reproduction, Diversification, and Biogeography10 Steps
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14.1 - Mitosis (25 min video)
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Read Chapter 14: Fullness of God...Cellular Reproduction
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14.2 - Meiosis and Non-Physical Reproduction (25 min video)
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Read Chapter 14: Meiosis...Non-Physical Reproduction
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14.3 - Diversification (28 min video)
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Read Chapter 14: “Multiply” and “Breed"
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Perform Lab Exercise 13: Mitosis and Meiosis (6-8 hours)
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14.4 - Biogeography & Responsibility (27 min video)
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Read Chapter 14: Fill...Responsibility
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Test - Chapter 14
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14.1 - Mitosis (25 min video)
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Chapter 15: The History of Life9 Steps
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15.1 - Biblical Chronology (26 min video)
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Read Chapter 15: His Story...Biblical Time
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15.2 - The Creation Week (18 min video)
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Read Chapter 15: His Story...Biblical Time
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15.3 - The Edenian and Ante-Diluvian Worlds (21 min video)
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Read Chapter 15: The Edenian Epoch
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15.4 - The Flood & Arphaxadian Epoch (26 min video)
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Read Chapter 15: Arphaxadian Epoch
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Test - Chapter 15
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15.1 - Biblical Chronology (26 min video)
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Appendix4 Steps
Read Chapter 1.1: Creation and Revelation
God identified Himself to Moses and Israel as ‘I am’ (Ex. 3:14) because it is part of His very nature to exist. It is impossible for God not to exist. Consequently, God is eternal (‘the King eternal’: I Tim. 1:17). He had no beginning. He always was, is, and always will be. God and only God is eternal and uncreated. “…by Him were all things created…” (Col. 1:16). He created both the physical world (everything detectable, or potentially detectable, with our senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste) and the non-physical world (everything that is not detectable with our senses).
“God is spirit” (John 4:24). Therefore, unless He chooses to reveal Himself, human eyes cannot see Him, ears cannot hear Him, tongues cannot taste Him, noses cannot smell Him, and skin cannot feel Him. Unless He wanted us to perceive Him, God would be undetectable and unknowable. He would not have to ‘hide’ to be unknown to us. He would not have to do anything at all.
In fact, considering the awesomeness of God and how far we fall short of His glory (Rom. 3:23), we do not deserve to know Him. It seems only ‘natural’ that such a God should be unknowable to us. However, astonishingly enough, this is not the God of the Bible. Instead, the God of Scripture desires to be known.
Before man’s rebellion, God apparently made it a habit to walk and talk with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day (the implication in Gen. 3:8a). Even after the Fall of man, Enoch ‘walked with God’ until God took him directly into heaven (Gen. 5:24), Abraham ‘was called the friend of God’ (James 2:23), Moses spoke with God face to face ‘as a man speaks to his friend’ (Exo. 33:11), David was chosen by God as a man ‘after His own heart’ (I Sam. 13:14), Israel was cherished as the ‘the apple of His eye’ (Deu. 32:10), New Testament believers are adopted children who can call Him ‘Abba’ (Rom. 8:15), and the church is cherished by God in the way a bride is cherished by her bridegroom (e.g. Song of Solomon).
From the very beginning God has sought out man so that we could know Him. To do so, God has condescended to reveal Himself to man. Although He could create the entire universe and its components in an instant and still not need rest, He condescended to create over the course of six days and rested on the seventh day as an example to man (Mark 2:27; Exo. 20:8-11).
A couple thousand years ago “…the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…” (John 1:14). God went so far as to humble Himself and take on the form of a servant (Philippians 2:6-7)—all as an example to us. Jesus Christ even permitted a greater abasement than that. He allowed our sin to be placed upon Him, and He allowed Himself to take the full measure of punishment for our sin. He actually received on Himself His Father’s anger towards our sin and paid for an eternity of suffering for the sins we committed. And He made Himself ‘to be sin’ for us, so that we might enjoy an eternal relationship with the Almighty Holy God (II Cor. 5:21).
He did so much for us that all we have to do in return is believe in what Christ has already done (Acts 16:31)—to trust that He has done all that is necessary for us to be acceptable in God’s sight.
As part of the revelation of Himself to man, God created the physical world so that humans could see His invisible qualities and attributes (Rom. 1:20a). This was true of ‘even His eternal power and Godhead’ (Rom. 1:20b). According to the larger passage (Rom. 1:18ff), God has so convincingly used His creation to show His attributes that every person has actually already come to ‘know God’ (Gen. 1:21a). Every person did not just come to know about God; every person has come to know God. God’s revelation through His creation is so effective that no person is left with an excuse. No one will be able to stand before God and say that he or she never knew God.