So what do you know about origins?

On Thursday, May 24th, the grade nine students will write a test on the topic of origins. The format will be a little different: students will work with a partner to answer the questions. To be prepared, please make sure you can explain the main ideas behind each of the various Christian views of origins. Also study the main evidences for an old earth and their limits: radiometric dating, geologic column, distant starlight, and human evolution. The authorship of Genesis is another topic you should understand.

Problems with Evidence

Over the last couple of classes, we talked about two evidences for a really old creation, radiometric dating and hominid fossils. We discovered that radiometric dating relies on some assumptions. Assumptions are guesses that cannot be proven right or wrong. Scientists who accept the million/billion year ages given by radiometric dating assume... 1. That the rate of radioactive decay has always been the same 2. That rocks always start out with all parent material and no daughter material 3. That nothing has been added or removed from the rock If any of these assumptions are incorrect, the reliability of radiometric dating breaks down. We also looked at the whole evolution of man-from-ape-like-creatures story. Theistic evolutionists think man developed through evolution. We went through the main stages of human evolution--Australopithecus Afarensis (Lucy), Home Habilis, Homo Erectus (Java), Neanderthal Man, Cro-Magnon Man, and Modern Man (Homo Sapien Sapien). The evidence is full of gaps, hoaxes, mistakes, very few fossils, and little hands-on research.