Reaching Higher 5 - Paleontology
Whiteface Mountain
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Source Material
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Cudi Dagh and the Sirnak
University Symposium
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Cudi Dagh and the Sirnak
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Cudi Dagh and the Sirnak
University Symposium
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Cudi Dagh and the Sirnak
University Symposium
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Earthly and Heavenly
Things
“If I tell you of earthly things, and you do not believe; how will
you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?”
– John 3: 12
“If you do not believe the earthly things (i.e., things about our
physical universe) in the Word of God, then how can you
believe the heavenly things (i.e., things of a spiritual
nature)?”
– Paraphrase of John 3: 12
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The Bible & Physical Things
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Astronomy – study of celestial bodies
Biology / Physiology – study of living organisms
Chemistry – study of matter and its elements
Entomology – study of insects
Epidemiology / Pathology – study of health related issues and disease
Hematology – study of blood
Geology – study of the earth (including rock layers and plate tectonics)
Mathematics – study of numbers or quantities
Meteorology – study of the atmosphere
Oceanography / Hydrology – study of water and its movement
Optics / Electromagnetism – study of electricity and magnetism
Physics / Astrophysics – study of matter & motion through space-time
Paleontology – study of fossils
Thermodynamics – study of heat transfer
…just to name a few…
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Paleontology
Study of the Fossils (both Animals and Plants)
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Paleontology
(Pterosaurs in the Bible – Flying Serpents)
“…the burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of
trouble and anguish, from which came the lioness and lion, the viper
and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the backs of
young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a
people who shall not profit,”
– Isaiah 30: 6
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Paleontology
(Pterosaurs in the Bible – Flying Serpents)
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Paleontology
(Dinosaurs in the Bible – Flying Serpents)
“Look now at the Behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass
like an ox. See now, his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his
stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs
are tightly knit. His bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of
iron.” – Job 40: 15 – 18
“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line
which you lower? Can you put a reed through his nose, or pierce his jaw
with a hook?... I will not conceal his limbs, His mighty power, or his graceful
proportions… Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all
around? His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal… His
sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the
morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot
out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, As from a boiling pot and burning
rushes.”
– Job 41: 1 – 2; 12, 14 – 15, 18 –13 20
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Paleontology
(Dinosaurs in the Bible - Dragon)
“Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.”
– Deuteronomy 32: 33
“You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the dragon
you shall trample underfoot.” – Psalm 91: 13
“And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for
owls.” – Isaiah 34: 13
“The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I
give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen.” – Isaiah 43: 20
“And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind
like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.” Jeremiah 14: 6
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Paleontology
(Dinosaurs in the Bible - Dragon)
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Paleontology
(Nasca Indian Art & American Southwest Pictographs)
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Paleontology
(Nasca Indian Art & American Southwest Pictographs)
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Paleontology
(Nasca Indian Art & American Southwest Pictographs)
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Paleontology
(Acambaro Figurines - Mexico)
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Paleontology
(Dinosaurs in the Bible - Dragon)
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Paleontology
(Dinosaurs in the Bible - Dragon)
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Paleontology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
“Every living thing that moved on the earth perished--birds, livestock, wild animals,
all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry
land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of
the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the
ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and
those with him in the ark. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty
days.”
– Genesis 7: 21 – 24
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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The Bible and Geology
(Fossil Record and Catastrophism)
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Paleontology
(Polystrate Fossils & Petrified Wood)
“And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the one
hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.” – Genesis 8: 3
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The Bible and Paleontology
(T-Rex Soft Tissue and Hell’s Creek)
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The Bible and Paleontology
(T-Rex Soft Tissue and Hell’s Creek)
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The Bible and Paleontology
(T-Rex Soft Tissue and Hell’s Creek)
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The Bible and Paleontology
(T-Rex Soft Tissue and Hell’s Creek)
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Easter Island and
Neanderthal?
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal and Ages of the Patriarchs)
Decreasing
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“This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was 100 years old, and begot
Arphaxad 2 years after the flood. After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived 500
years, and begot sons and daughters. Arphaxad lived 35 years, and begot
Salah. After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived 403 years, and begot sons and
daughters. Salah lived 30 years, and begot Eber. After he begot Eber, Salah
lived 403 years, and begot sons and daughters. Eber lived 34 years, and
begot Peleg. After he begot Peleg, Eber lived 430 years, and begot sons and
daughters. Peleg lived 30 years, and begot Reu. After he begot Reu, Peleg
lived 209 years, and begot sons and daughters. Reu lived 32 years, and begot
Serug. After he begot Serug, Reu lived 207 years, and begot sons and
daughters. Serug lived 30 years, and begot Nahor. After he begot Nahor,
Serug lived 200 years, and begot sons and daughters. Nahor lived 29 years,
and begot Terah. After he begot Terah, Nahor lived 119 years, and begot
sons and daughters. Now Terah lived 70 years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.”
– Genesis 11: 10 - 26
Shem
Arphaxad
Salah
Eber
Peleg
Reu
Serug
Nahor
Terah
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal and a Modern Challenge)
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal Man and Forensic Pathology)
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal Man and Forensic Pathology)
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal Man and Forensic Pathology)
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal Man and Forensic Pathology)
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal Man - Le Moustier)
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal Man - La Ferrassie)
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Paleontology
(Neanderthal Man - La Chapelle–aux–Saints)
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The Bible and …
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Information Science
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Antiseptic Surgery – Joseph Lister
Bacteriology – Louis Pasteur
Calculus – Isaac Newton
Celestial Mechanics – Johannes Kepler
Chemistry – Robert Boyle
Comparative Anatomy – Georges Cuvier
Computer Science – Charles Babbage
Dimensional Analysis – Lord Rayleigh
Dynamics – Isaac Newton
Electronics – John Ambrose Fleming
Electrodynamics – James Clerk Maxwell
Electromagnetics – Michael Faraday
Energetics – Lord Kelvin
Entomology – Henri Fabre
Field Theory – Michael Faraday
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Fluid Mechanics – George Stokes
Galactic Astronomy – Sir William Herschel
Gas Dynamics – Robert Boyle
Genetics – Gregor Mendel
Glacial Geology – Louis Agassiz
Gynecology – James Simpson
Hydrography – Matthew Maury
Hydrostatics – Blaise Pascal
Ichthyology – Louis Agassiz
Isotopic Chemistry – William Ramsey
Model Analysis – Lord Rayleigh
Natural History – John Ray
Non-Euclidian Geometry – Bernard Riemann
Oceanography – Matthew Maury
Optical Mineralogy – David Brewster
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Paleontology – John Woodward
Pathology – Rudolph Virchow
Physical Astronomy – Johan Kepler
Reversible Thermodynamics – James Joule
Statistical Thermodynamics – James Clerk Maxwell
Stratigraphy – Nicholas Steno
Systematic Biology – Carolus Linnaeus
Thermodynamics – Lord Kelvin
Thermokinetics – Humphrey Davy
Vertebrate Paleontology – Georges Cuvier
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Earthly and Heavenly
Things
“If I tell you of earthly things, and you do not believe; how will you believe if I
tell you of heavenly things?”
– John 3: 12
“If you do not believe the earthly things (i.e., things about our physical
universe) in the Word of God, then how can you believe the heavenly things
(i.e., things of a spiritual nature)?”
– Paraphrase of John 3: 12
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