S Credo of Geologic Evolution



____________’s Credo of Geologic and Biological Evolution

Answer. Then be ready to answer the question “Why do you think so?”

Warm Up Questions

1. Read the attached account of how the world was created. (it’s at the end of the worksheet.) 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. But you weren’t there! How can you say what happened when nobody was there to see it happen?

Before You Start

A. What is your definition of truth?

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

If you don’t know – write “My Guess: (then write a guess)” You cannot leave anything blank.

1. How old is the earth?

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

3. What kinds of evidence do scientists use to figure out what happened in earth’s ancient past?

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

Important Events Why important

5. Scientists created a timeline to organize earth’s history. What kind of events should be where scientists draw a line and say this is when one time period ends and a new one begins?

6. Describe the earth’s surface over the last 4.5 billion years. A) Has it changed? B) if so, how has it changed? C) What forces created these changes?

7. Is the earth still evolving? Prove it.

8. Where can you find fossils? How could you figure out how old a fossil was if you found one?

9. What did early forms of life look like? 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? Some people have strong feeling about it, most don’t exactly understand what it is. B) What do you know about it? C) What is the difference between believing and knowing? D) Which does science use?

12. What forces/situations makes 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.)

17. Why do scientists believe modern humans evolved from ape-like primates?

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

19. T/F Dinosaurs and hominids/humans coexisted.

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

21. How many major extinction periods have there been? Describe them.

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?

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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 and 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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