Showing posts with label Exploring Creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exploring Creation. Show all posts

2013-01-07

Module 8 Genetics

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Resources 


Check out this site for a complete presentation of genetics. You have to sign up for a free account, but if you sign up, you get all of Paul Anderson's videos arranged in logical order.

Fruit fly worksheet

Sex-linked Genes worksheet.  We are using the fruit fly part  Answers to worksheet





















2012-11-14

Module 16: Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals

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Assignments:

Read the chapter
Complete the worksheet
Watch the movie on komodo dragons

Resources:




 Tuatara video link


Tuatara Sphenodon punctatus








Bill Nye - Blood and Circulation



Bill Nye Digestion part 1




Bill Nye Digestion part 2




Bill Nye Digestion part 3




Magic School Bus Flexes it's Muscles




Biology Essentials - Paul Anderson nervous system




The Digestive System - Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson makes a passing remark on the appendix. He calls the appendix a vestigial organ meaning that the appendix has no purpose for us. An evolutionist considers a vestigial organ something we used to need, but we have evolved beyond our need of it.  Actually, according to the Scientific American, "the appendix probably helps to suppress potentially destructive humoral (blood- and lymph-borne) antibody responses while promoting local immunity." see link article



The Respiratory System

The only evolutionary tainted comments in this video are references to creatures coming up with different types of respiratory systems. The creatures didn't come up with different types of systems, God made them that way.



The Circulatory System

One comment on the heart evolving in higher animals.



 

The Endocrine System



The Sensory System









Fetal Pig Dissection Day 1





2012-11-11

Module 13: Phylum Chrordata

 

Resources:



Shark Mountain - video from Nature


 
Salmon spawning

 
Life Cycle of a Frog


External Fish Dissection


Internal Fish Dissection


Frog Dissection part 1

 

Frog Dissection part 2
 


 
 

2012-10-30

Module 11: Invertebrates



Resources


Nova - Great Barrier Reef


Giant Clams Great Barrier Reef


Coral Spawning- Great Barrier Reef


National Geographic- Octopus


Sponges


Invertebrate Diversity - Part 1


Invertebrate Diversity - Part 2


Invertebrate Diversity - Echinoderms


 Worm Dissection - part 1


Worm Dissection - part 2


Starfish dissection part 1


Starfish Dissection part 2






Coral Reefs - National Geographic

Coral Reef Print-Outs from Enchanted Learning

Sponge Print-Outs from Enchanted Learning

2012-10-22

Module 4: Fungi




Creation Spotlight:


ICR equips believers with evidence of the Bible's accuracy and authority
Read one of these articles from Institute for Creation Research on the uniqueness of our earth.

Assignment: 

Read Module 4.

Resources:



The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad




Paul Anderson - Fungi





2012-10-10

Module 2: Bacteria






Resources:






Articles on Bacteria



Videos:


Bacteria Reproduction


Bacteria - Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson is an excellent teacher, but teaches from an evolutionary perspective. I do not feel that he is intellectually honest in his comments about origins at the beginning of the clip. He talks as if the concept that we have all descended from one cell is a proven fact, when reality is, no one has ever discovered this cell. He talks as if we have proven that there is a lot of genetic transfer from the prokaryotic  cells to the eukaryotic cells, and this is assumed, not proven. It is my personal opinion that  the reason the science community is switching from a 5 kingdom classification system to a 3 domain classification system is that they have found that proving evolution on the basis of structural characteristics is impossible, and they hope to do it on a cellular level. Anyone who thinks this is possible needs to read "Darwin's Black Box" by Behe.



The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie


2012-09-22

Module 9: Evolution

Resources:

For the younger set, be sure to visit jonathanpark.com. You can listen to the current show online. The albums are available to download and are worth every penny. Homeschool lessons are available if you sign up for a free membership.
Listen to entire albums of Jonathan park at grooveshark.
Album #1 The Adventure Begins
Album #2 No Looking Back

Older kids and adults should check out creation.com for a multitude of great articles and videos on creation/evolution.

Web Articles:




The Geologic Column: Does it Exist?

It has been claimed that the geological column as a faunal succession is not just a hypothetical concept, but a reality, because all Phanerozoic systems exist superposed at a number of locations on the earth. Close examination reveals, however, that even at locations where all ten systems are superposed, the column, as represented by sedimentary-thickness, is mostly missing. In fact, the thickest local accumulation of rock is only a tiny fraction of the inferred 600-million year’s worth of depositions. The global ‘stack’ of index fossils exists nowhere on earth, and most index fossils do not usually overlie each other at the same locality. So, even in those places where all Phanerozoic systems have been assigned, the column is still hypothetical. Locally, many of the systems have not been assigned by the index fossils contained in the strata but by indirect methods that take the column for granted—clearly circular reasoning. Thus the geologic column does not exist and so does not need to be explained by Flood geology. Only each local succession requires an explanation and Flood geology is wholly adequate for this task.
Link to whole article

Geographic Information Systems Resources (GIS):

Explore the geology of the United States. Find out how widespread fossils are. 

ArcGis Explorer Download This is a wonderful free program that you can use to input your own geographic information, combine it with their maps, and use it to explore your world in a multitude of ways.

Video Resources:


Creation/Evolution What's it all about? part 1
(warning; short wedding scene. bride immodestly dressed)




Creation/Evolution: What's it all about? part 2



Changes in Living Things - Natural Selection




Changes in Living Things - Mutations




Astronomy - The Heavens Declare the Glory of God




Stephen Austin - Mount St. Helens
Great Lecture


A Thousand Years in A Day - Mount St. Helens