Bio 400 Final Exam with answers
Geology arose through what types of questions? Examples? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔-Practical and theoretical
-Where can we find valuable minerals and metals
-How did mountains form
-Where do rivers come from
-What are fossils
-How did the Earth form in the first place
What was the Beringer Hoax? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-Colleagues wanted to
embarrass a colleague
-Told him where to look
-Thought he would announce the fossils and they would emerge and prove him to be a fake
-He found the fossils (including spiders, cobwebs, etc.)
-They thought fossils did not represent living organisms but things that divinity buried for
people to find
What did Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation explain? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔-The daily tides
-Cosmology: inspired the search for theories of the earth and its origins that were based on
physical laws
What did James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh do? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-
Published a chronology of human history
-Stated that divine creation began at 12 noon on October 23, 4004 BC
,How did Ussher arrive at the date of divine creation? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Through extensive Biblical and non-Biblical research
What was the only geological event in history that significantly shaped the Earth according
to the Genesis view? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The Great Flood of Noah
Early scientific models tried to incorporate the new knowledge of ________ and
____________ into an account of the earth's origins and history - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔-Physics
-Astonomy
What did the New Theory of the Earth attempt to do? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Explain Biblical events by means of cometary events
What did people wonder about comets? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔If they obeyed
Newton's law
Who was William Whiston? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-Wrote New Theory of the
Earth
-Mathematician and physicist
-Was Newton's hand picked successor at Cambridge
What was Whiston's operating principle? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Accept the Bible
as literally true, except if you have reason to believe otherwise
What did Whiston believe in terms of Genesis in relation of the Earth? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔-Genesis is NOT an account of the origin of everything
-Genesis is the surface of the Earth, not the cosmos as a whole
, What was the Bible's creation story of the Earth? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-The
Earth was a comet with a highly elliptical orbit
-The orbit was made more circular by God, working through Newton's laws
-Physical laws are the tools of God
-The circularization of the orbit clarified the atmosphere
What Biblical events were accompanied by the impact of a comet hitting the Earth? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-The Fall of Man
-The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
What was said to have caused The Flood - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-A close
encounter between the Earth and the water in the tail of a passing comet
-Tidal forces caused by the comet opened cracks in the Earth's surface, resulting in the
upward surge of subterranean water
What is believed to be the coming conflagration? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Another
comet will approach the Earth, strip our atmosphere, raise molten interior material, and
make the Earth's orbit more elliptical
What is the consummation? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Christ will reign for a
thousand years, the Battle of Armageddon will be fought, the righteous will win and go to
Heaven. The Earth will take a direct hit from yet another comet, and will be knocked back
into a highly elliptical orbit
What is the Telliamed? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-A book by Benoit de Maillet
-Describes his conversations with a mysterious philosopher from the East
-De Maillet put his radical ideas in the mouth of a character in a fictional story, in order to
avoid trouble with the authorities
Geology arose through what types of questions? Examples? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔-Practical and theoretical
-Where can we find valuable minerals and metals
-How did mountains form
-Where do rivers come from
-What are fossils
-How did the Earth form in the first place
What was the Beringer Hoax? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-Colleagues wanted to
embarrass a colleague
-Told him where to look
-Thought he would announce the fossils and they would emerge and prove him to be a fake
-He found the fossils (including spiders, cobwebs, etc.)
-They thought fossils did not represent living organisms but things that divinity buried for
people to find
What did Sir Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation explain? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔-The daily tides
-Cosmology: inspired the search for theories of the earth and its origins that were based on
physical laws
What did James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh do? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-
Published a chronology of human history
-Stated that divine creation began at 12 noon on October 23, 4004 BC
,How did Ussher arrive at the date of divine creation? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Through extensive Biblical and non-Biblical research
What was the only geological event in history that significantly shaped the Earth according
to the Genesis view? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The Great Flood of Noah
Early scientific models tried to incorporate the new knowledge of ________ and
____________ into an account of the earth's origins and history - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔-Physics
-Astonomy
What did the New Theory of the Earth attempt to do? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Explain Biblical events by means of cometary events
What did people wonder about comets? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔If they obeyed
Newton's law
Who was William Whiston? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-Wrote New Theory of the
Earth
-Mathematician and physicist
-Was Newton's hand picked successor at Cambridge
What was Whiston's operating principle? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Accept the Bible
as literally true, except if you have reason to believe otherwise
What did Whiston believe in terms of Genesis in relation of the Earth? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS **✔✔-Genesis is NOT an account of the origin of everything
-Genesis is the surface of the Earth, not the cosmos as a whole
, What was the Bible's creation story of the Earth? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-The
Earth was a comet with a highly elliptical orbit
-The orbit was made more circular by God, working through Newton's laws
-Physical laws are the tools of God
-The circularization of the orbit clarified the atmosphere
What Biblical events were accompanied by the impact of a comet hitting the Earth? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-The Fall of Man
-The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
What was said to have caused The Flood - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-A close
encounter between the Earth and the water in the tail of a passing comet
-Tidal forces caused by the comet opened cracks in the Earth's surface, resulting in the
upward surge of subterranean water
What is believed to be the coming conflagration? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Another
comet will approach the Earth, strip our atmosphere, raise molten interior material, and
make the Earth's orbit more elliptical
What is the consummation? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Christ will reign for a
thousand years, the Battle of Armageddon will be fought, the righteous will win and go to
Heaven. The Earth will take a direct hit from yet another comet, and will be knocked back
into a highly elliptical orbit
What is the Telliamed? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-A book by Benoit de Maillet
-Describes his conversations with a mysterious philosopher from the East
-De Maillet put his radical ideas in the mouth of a character in a fictional story, in order to
avoid trouble with the authorities
