DOES GOD EXIST?
INTERMEDIATE COURSE
QUESTIONS FOR LESSON 8

WHEN DID GOD CREATE MAN?

Note to Student:  Please answer the following questions to be graded.  These questions are designed to make you think.  If you get stuck and cannot answer some of the questions, just leave them blank and we will fill them in for you.

  1. There are many assumptions made about what Adam and Eve were like and how they lived. Identify three of them:

      a. 

      b.

      c.

  2. Radioactive dating measures the time it takes a substance to decay half of its mass. What assumptions are made to do this calculation?  (List three of them.)

      a. 

      b.

      c.

  3. Identify three possible events in the earth’s history which would not be uniformitarian.

      a. 

      b.

      c.

  4. Is the length of the days of Genesis 1 related to the age of the earth?

    Yes  [    ] No  [    ]

  5. Which statement describes the biblical viewpoint of uniformitarianism. (Check one.)

      [    ]  a.  Totally uniformitarian

      [    ]  b.  Totally catastrophic

      [    ]  c.  Mostly uniformitarian with occasional catastrophic events

      [    ]  d.  Mostly catastrophic with occasional uniformitarian periods

  6. Give an example of an undated event in the Bible.

  7. Why is it that time is not a concern to God?

  8. Why is it that man’s religions frequently want to establish specific times for biblical events?

  9. Why does the idea of God creating the earth with fossils already in it and with all formations intact conflict with the nature of God?

  10. How much time did God need to create the earth?

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11/3/2009