Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism-Workbook
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The controversy surrounding the origin of the universe, earth, and all living things is an ongoing debate in the public sphere. In Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism, author Robert J. OKeefe presents analysis leading to the realization that to obtain knowledge of origin is also to discover the origin of knowledge.
Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism recognizes the ideological nature of the topic of origin. It steps out of the realm of science and begins to deal with the question by reviewing the scientific revolution and its implications in Western thought, studying the interpretation of Genesis 1, and describing relevant aspects of the history of geology, biology, and astronomy.
OKeefe summarizes science as a means of gaining knowledge and discusses the scientific method as it is applied to natural history. He examines how the court system has dealt with the controversy; draws points from C. S. Lewiss argument against naturalism; and then confronts the ideology behind evolutionary science, the philosophy of naturalism, presenting what he sees are the best arguments against it. Finally, he summons back the grounds for the authority of the Bible and discusses the partnership of reason and faith.
Expanding the scope of inquiry beyond the confines of science, OKeefe shows that the idea of a creator needs to be attended with more seriousness than post-Enlightenment science and philosophy have ever thought necessary.
This workbook contains questions specific to each chapter of the main book, an answer key, and a special section, Challenges of the Skeptic, containing challenges to belief typically posed by skeptics along with possible replies.
Robert J. O’Keefe
Robert J. O’Keefe earned a Master of Science degree in engineering from Purdue University. Questions and comments may be sent to him at GTHGOE@gmail.com or posted at the following site: http://myforum. christschurchoflancaster.com/user/categories.aspx
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Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism-Workbook - Robert J. O’Keefe
Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism
Workbook
ROBERT J. O’KEEFE
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Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism
Workbook
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Contents
Questions
Chapter 1 Questions:
Chapter 2 Questions:
Chapter 3 Questions:
Chapter 4 Questions:
Chapter 5 Questions:
Chapter 6 Questions:
Chapter 7 Questions:
Chapter 8 Questions:
Chapter 9 Questions:
Chapter 10 Questions:
Chapter 11 Questions:
Chapter 12 Questions:
Answer Key
SPECIAL SECTION: Challenges Of The Skeptic
Questions
Questions are arranged by chapter and consist of true/false (T / F), multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and essay-style questions for which short phrases or sentences are often, though not always, sufficient to answe r. Some multiple choice questions may have more than one correct answer. Also, a few questions have been added as disc ussion questions for which there is no one correct answer; these questions are noted as such in the answer key.
Chapter 1
Questions:
1. T / F
___ Science enables us to understand the natural world.
___ Science has always been the means of understanding the natural world.
___ Aristotle’s four categories of causes were known collectively as the systematic philosophy.
___ Christian theology and natural philosophy were incompatible before the scientific revolution.
___ Francis Bacon advocated an experimental method for verifying theories about natural phenomena.
___ Nicolaus Copernicus first theorized that Earth was the center of the universe.
___ Galileo published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543.
___ Isaac Newton published his theory of universal gravitation in 1687.
___ Isaac Newton started the scientific revolution with Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.
___ Natural philosophers sometimes regarded themselves as priests
of nature interpreting the book
of nature.
___ Galileo first understood that planetary motion could be described mathematically.
___ The argument for the existence of God from design in nature is called the theological argument.
___ Galileo ran afoul of church authorities in regard to whether or not God’s commandments were arbitrary.
___ Deism became a fashionable theology in the eighteenth century.
___ Neither the Islamic Empire nor China ultimately accepted the idea that nature is rationally ordered.
___ The uniformity principle enabled science to extend the scientific method into the past to explain the past.
___ Deism came about as a compromise between theism and atheism.
___ Deism is associated with the ideas of supremacy of natural laws and uniformity of natural processes.
___ A rational approach to understanding nature eventually superseded the need for natural laws.
___ The experimental method requires empirical evidence in support of scientific theories in order for them to be considered valid.
___ Generalizations and unifying ideas that form the basis of scientific theories are always products of the scientific method.
2. Which event or trend laid the groundwork for a rational approach to understanding nature?
a. The Protestant Reformation
b. Adaptation of the dialectic method of reasoning
c. Translation of the writings of Aristotle and Plato into Latin
d. Contact with the scientific achievements of the Islamic Empire
e. Invention of the printing press
f. Adoption of the rationality of Greek philosophy in Christian theology
3. Which trends characterized the European Renaissance in the sixteenth century?
a. Increases in geographical exploration and discovery
b. Fragmentation of what