S Credo of Geologic and Biological “Change over Time



____________’s Credo of Geologic and Biological “Change over Time.”

Warm Ups Questions

1. Listen to the account of the origin of the world. Explain why you think it is true or not.

2. The night after a storm, you come in to the classroom to find a tree branch and broken window glass on the floor. The floor is flooded with water, about 12 mm deep. By experimentation, you determine that rainwater would come in a hole in the window that size at a rate that would cover the floor 2 mm every hour. What happened in the room and how long ago did it happen?

3. You weren’t there – no one was. How is it possible to say what happened?

Before You Start

A. What is your definition of truth? Truth is…

B. How do you decide what is the truth and what isn’t?

YOUR CREDO

1. How old is the earth? Why do you think that?

2. How did the earth form? Describe what happened.

3. What evidence could scientists use to figure out what happened in earth’s ancient past? (List as many as you can.) Check the ones you think are credible/valid ways to prove things we can’t have seen.

4. Give your Top Five List: What are the five most important events in earth’s history? Give your reason for choosing those.

5. Scientists created a timeline to organize earth’s history. How would you organize/group earth’s history? In other words, what events would determine where divisions should be made?

6. Describe the earth’s surface since it first formed. A) Has it changed? B) If so, how has it changed as time has passed? C)What forces created these changes?

7. Is the earth still evolving? What evidence makes you think yes or no?

8. What is a fossil? How could you figure out how old a fossil was if you found one?

9. Do creatures today always look the way they do now? If yes, why did they stay the same? If no, why did they change?

10. Why are there no longer dinosaurs? How did the puny mammals survive while the powerful dinosaurs died out?

11. A) What is evolution? (Most people will tell you emphatically they are pro or con, but few can accurately define what it is.) B) Is your definition based on belief or evidence? C) Why is there so much drama about it?

12. What forces/situations could species evolve (change over generations)?

13. Of all species that have ever existed, 99.9% are extinct. Cockroaches and sharks, however, have been around for millions of years. Not only have they not gone extinct, they’ve barely changed. How do you think have they avoided extinction and major changes over time?

14. Define what you would call a human. (What makes a human, well, human?)

15. Define what you would call a hominid.

16. How long have humans been on earth? (This answer depends on what you said a human was.) What makes you think that?

17. What evidence do scientist have that modern humans evolved from ape-like primates? Did humans evolve from monkeys or apes? (Trick culture question…)

18. Has there only been one kind of hominid/human species existing at a time?

19. T/F Dinosaurs and hominids/humans coexisted. Your evidence is….?

20. What is a mass extinction? What causes one?

21. How many major extinctions have there been? What caused them and what died out?

22. Are we going through a mass extinction period now? How are humans involved?

23. If we are going through a mass extinction, describe the future of earth if this continues.

24, How do we know our climate is getting warmer? How would things change for us and the planet if this warming continues?

25. Do you think humans will continue to evolve? If so, how will we change?

For warm up questions 1:

There are times when the universe takes form and times when it dissolves back into nothing.

Before time began there was no heaven, no earth and no space between. A vast dark ocean of darkness washed upon the shores of nothingness and licked the edges of night.

A giant cobra floated on the waters. Asleep within its endless coils lay the Lord Vishnu. He was watched over by the mighty serpent. Everything was so peaceful and silent that Vishnu slept undisturbed by dreams or motion.

From the depths a humming sound, Om, began to tremble. It grew and spread, filling the emptiness with energy. The night had ended. Vishnu awoke. As the dawn began to break, from Vishnu's navel grew a magnificent lotus flower. In the middle of the blossom sat Vishnu's servant, Brahma. He awaited the Lord's command.

Vishnu spoke to his servant: 'It is time to begin.' Brahma bowed. Vishnu commanded:

A wind swept up the waters. Vishnu and the serpent vanished. Brahma remained in the lotus flower, floating and tossing on the sea. He lifted up his arms and calmed the wind and the ocean. Then Brahma split the lotus flower into three. He stretched one part into the heavens. He made another part into the earth. With the third part of the flower he created the skies.

The earth was bare. Brahma set to work. He created grass, flowers, trees and plants of all kinds. To these he gave feeling. Next he created the animals and the insects to live on the land. He made birds to fly in the air and many fish to swim in the sea. To all these creatures, he gave the senses of touch and smell. He gave them power to see, hear and move.

The world was soon bristling with life and the air was filled with the sounds of Brahma's creation.

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