Discovering Origins

Day 1: Introduction Part 1 – How to Use Discovering Origins
- Article: “Snowball Earth: Out With a Bang”
Day 2: Introduction Part 2 – What is Apologetics?
- Video: “Why is Creation Apologetics Important – Video Testimony” (2 min)
Day 5: Introduction Part 5 – Historical vs. Observational Science
- Video: “Dismantling Evolution “Observational vs. Historical Science” (Clip: ~9 min)
  This video link will automatically start at 3 minutes, 45 seconds. Watch until 12 min., 19 sec.
- Web page: “Evolution as fact and theory”
- Web article: “Evolution: Fact and Theory”

UNIT 1: Worldview and Its Implications

Day 6: Unit 1, Lesson 1 – What is Worldview?
- Video: “Dismantling Evolution “It’s not about the Evidence!” (Clip: ~5 min)
  This video will start at 12 minutes, 20 seconds. Watch until 17 min., 4 sec.
Day 11: Unit 1, Lesson 3 – Can We Trust the Bible?
- Video: Myth 1: “Can We Trust the Bible?” (16 min)
Day 12: Unit 1, Lesson 4 – Two Different Accounts of Creation?
- Video: Myth 3: “Genesis 1 & 2: Different Accounts?” (6 min)
Day 13: Unit 1, Lesson 5 – Who Wrote the Pentateuch?
- Video: Myth 6: “Did Moses Produce the Torah?” (15 min)
Day 14: Unit 1, Lesson 6 – Biblical History in the Chinese Language
- Video: “God in Ancient China” (60 min)
Day 16: Unit 1, Lesson 8 – The Atheistic Worldview
- Video: Cosmos Possible: Ladder to the Stars” (Season 1, Episode 1, ~40 min)
  You will need to look up this video on YouTube.
Day 17: Unit 1, Lesson 8 Continued – The Atheistic Worldview
- Video: “The Whole History of the Earth and Life” (66 min)
Day 18: Unit 1, Lesson 8 Continued – The Atheistic Worldview
- Video: “Richard Dawkins Teaches Evolution to Religious Students” (52 min)
Day 19: Unit 1, Lesson 8 Continued – The Atheistic Worldview
- Video: “Human Evolution: The Complete Story Of Our Existence” (43 min)
- Video: “How Evolution Works” (12 min)
Day 21: Unit 1, Lesson 9 – Theistic Evolution
- Video: “What is Theistic Evolution?” (5 min)
- Video: “Is Evolution Incompatible with Theism?” (2 min)
- Video: “Old Earth Creation: Day-Age, Analogical Day, & Intermittent Day”
  Watch until 8 minutes, 20 seconds.
- Video: “What is the ‘Gap Theory’ of Genesis?” (5 min)
Day 22: Unit 1, Lesson 10 – Theistic Evolution Refuted
- Video: “What is Theistic Evolution?” (3 min)
- Video: “Did God use Evolution? Theistic Evolution vs. the Bible” (2 min)
Day 24: Unit 1, Lesson 11 – How Does Theistic Evolution Effect Your Worldview?
- Video: “How Theistic Evolution Affects Christian Theology” (29 min)
Day 28: Unit 1 Project Option 2: The Evolutionary Worldview]
- BBC “Belief” Interview
- A short biography on Dawkins’ life
Day 29: Unit 1 Project Option 2: Theistic Evolution
- Peter Enns’ Website
- “About Pete Enns” https://thebiblefornormalpeople.com/about-pete-enns
Day 30: Unit 1 Project Option 2: Creation Worldview
- “David Menton”
- “A Fond Farewell to a Great Scientist and Friend: David Menton”

UNIT 2: Evolution

Day 34: Unit 2, Lesson 1 – Apologetics
- Video: “Apologetics with Reasons for Hope | Right Attitude – Part 1” (1 min)
- Video: “Apologetics with Reasons for Hope | Right Attitude – Part 2” (1 min)
Day 35: Unit 2, Lesson 2 – Genesis Impact
- Video: Genesis Impact (68 min)
Day 36: Unit 2, Lesson 3 – Are We 98% Similar to Apes?
- Video: Genesis Impact (Clip: ~4 min)
  This video will begin at 5 minutes, 40 seconds. Watch until 9 min., 54 sec.
- Video: “Human Chimp DNA Similarity–Is it really 98%?” (9 min)
- Web Article: “How Much DNA Do Humans Share with Other Animals and Plants?”
Day 40: Unit 2, Lesson 4 – Skull Lab
- Video: “Lab: Making an Apeman” with Dr. David Menton” (34 min)
  This video can also be found on AnswersTV.
Day 41: Unit 2, Lesson 5 – Ardi
- Video: Genesis Impact (Clip: ~ 7 min)
  This video will begin at 9 minutes, 54 seconds. Watch until 17 min., 14 sec.
- Web Article: “Ardi” Wikipedia page”
  Web Article: “Ardipithecus: Ape or Ancestor?”
Day 42: Unit 2, Lesson 6 – Lucy
- Video: Genesis Impact (Clip: ~17 min)
  This video will begin at 17 minutes, 14 seconds. Watch until 33 min., 54 sec.
Day 43: Unit 2, Lesson 6 Continued – Lucy
- Video: “Lucy: She’s no lady” by Dr. David Menton (~56 min)
  You will need to look up this video on AnswersTV or YouTube.
Day 44: Unit 2, Lesson 7 – Homo Habilis
- Video: Genesis Impact (Clip: ~7 min)
  This video will begin at 34 minutes, 20 seconds. Watch until 41 min., 48 sec.
Day 45: Unit 2, Lesson 8 – Neanderthals
- Video: Genesis Impact (Clip: ~2 min)
  This video will begin at 41 minutes, 48 seconds. Watch until 43 min., 27 sec.
- Video: “You might have some Neanderthal DNA” (1 min)
Days 46: Unit 2, Lesson 9 – Three Ways to Make an Ape Man
- Video: “Three Ways to Make an Apeman – David Menton” (~55 min)
  You will need to look up this video on AnswersTV or YouTube.
Day 47: Unit 2, Lesson 10 – Basic History Ape to Human “Transitional” Fossils
- Video: Genesis Impact (Clip: ~1 min)
  This video will begin at 43 minutes, 27 seconds. Watch until 44 min., 51 sec.
Day 49: Unit 2, Lesson 11 – Mutation and Adaptation
- Video: Genesis Impact (Clip: ~3 min)
  This video will begin at 44 minutes, 51 seconds. Watch until 48 min., 5 sec.
Day 50: Unit 2, Lesson 11 Continued – Mutation and Adaptation
- Video: Dismantling Evolution “Genetics” (Clip: ~19 min)
  This video will begin at 17 minutes, 35 seconds. Watch until 36 min., 25 sec.
Day 54: Unit 2, Lesson 13 – Adaptation and Baraminology
- Video: “God Deliberately Engineered Life to Change” (12 min)
Day 55: Unit 2, Lesson 13 Continued – Adaptation and Baraminology
- Video: “Speciation and the limits of change”
  Watch until 8 minutes, 3 seconds
- Video: “Classifying the created kinds leads to fascinating results” (13 min)
Day 56: Unit 2, Lesson 13 Continued – Adaptation and Baraminology
- Review: “Classifying the created kinds leads to fascinating results” (13 min)
- Web Article: “Species were designed to change, part 3”
Day 57: Unit 2, Lesson 14 – Whale Evolution
- Video: “Whale Evolution” (22 min)
Day 58: Unit 2, Lesson 15 – Vestigial Structures
- Video: “Are There Signs of Evolution in Our Body?” (21 min)
Day 59: Unit 2, Lesson 15 Continued – Vestigial Structures
- “Biologist Reacts to ‘Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on Your Body’” (8 min)
- Web Article: “Robert Wiedersheim” Wikipedia page
Day 60: Unit 2, Lesson 16 – Do Genetics Support Creation or Evolution?
- Video: Dismantling Evolution “Genetics” (Clip: ~9 min) 1:03:40–1:12:41)
  This video will begin at 1 hour, 3 minutes, 40 seconds. Watch until 1 hour, 12 min., 41 sec.
Unit 2 Project Videos
- “How Whales Became the Largest Animals Ever”
- “Vestigial Structures”
- “A Crash Course in Human Evolution with Anthropologist Chris Stringer”

UNIT 3: Dinosaurs

Day 72: Unit 3, Lesson 1 – Dinosaurs!
- Web Article: “Why Do Modern Bibles Mention Jackals Instead of Dragons?”
Day 73: Unit 3, Lesson 2 – Secular Viewpoint
- Video: “The Evolution of Dinosaurs in Ten Minutes” (10 min)
Day 75: Unit 3, Lesson 3 Continued – Behemoth
- Video: Myth 7 “Dinosaurs and the Bible” (Clip: ~10 min)
  This video will begin at 3 minutes, 10 seconds. Watch until 13 min., 25 sec.
Day 76: Unit 3, Lesson 4 – Leviathan
- Video: “What was Leviathan in Job 41?” (20 min)
Day 77: Unit 3, Lesson 5 – The Fossil Record
- Supplementary Video: “The Fossil Record: Proof of Noah’s Flood or Evolution” (16 min)
Day 80: Unit 3, Lesson 8 – Dinosaur Soft Tissue
- Video: Myth 7 “Dinosaurs and the Bible” (Clip: ~5 min)
  This video will begin at 13 minutes, 25 seconds. Watch until 17 min., 12 sec.
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip ~10 min)
  This video will begin at 1 hour, 8 minutes, 7 seconds. Watch until 1 hour, 18 min., 48 sec.
Day 82: Unit 3, Lesson 9 – Dinosaur Extinction
- Video: “What Happened to the Dinosaurs?” (2 min)
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~1 min)
  This video will begin at 1 hour, 1 minute, 49 seconds. Watch until 1 hour, 2 min., 56 sec.
- “Dinosaur Extinction: Noah’s Flood or an Asteroid?” (34 min)
Day 83: Unit 3, Lesson 11 – Dragons!
- Video: “Dinosaurs and Dragon Legends” Documentary (1 hour, 24 min.)

UNIT 4: Noah’s Flood

Day 93: Unit 4, Lesson 2 – The Ark and the Darkness
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (1 hour, 50 min.)
Day 94: Unit 4, Lesson 3 – The Setting
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~16 min)
  Watch from the beginning until 15 minutes, 43 seconds.
Day 95: Unit 4, Lesson 4 – The Pre-Flood World
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~5 min)
  This video will begin at 15 minutes, 43 seconds. Watch until 21 min., 12 sec.
Day 96: Unit 4, Lesson 5 – Was Noah’s Ark Seaworthy?
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~10 min)
  This video will begin at 21 minutes, 12 seconds. Watch until 30 min., 7 sec.
- Video: “How Many Animals Did Noah Have to Bring on the Ark?” (13 min)
Day 97: Unit 4, Lesson 6 – How Could Noah Care for the Animals?
- Video: “How Only Eight People Cared for All the Animals on Noah’s Ark” (13 min)
- Video: “Where Did Noah Get Drinking Water for All the Animals on the Ark?” (11 min)
Day 98: Unit 4, Lesson 7 – Was the Flood Worldwide or Local?
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~4 min)
  This video will begin at 30 minutes, 7 seconds. Watch until 34 min., 30 sec.
- Web Article: “Was the Flood of Noah Global or Local in Extent?”
Day 100: Unit 4, Lesson 8 – Flood Models and Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~12 min)
  This video will begin at 34 minutes, 30 seconds. Watch until 46 min., 42 sec.
Day 101: Unit 4, Lesson 8 Continued – Catastrophic Plate Tectonics
- Video: “Noah’s Flood and Catastrophic Plate Tectonics”
Day 103: Unit 4, Lesson 9 – The Sedimentary Record
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~10 min)
  This video will begin at 46 minutes, 42 seconds. Watch until 57 min., 23 sec.
Day 105: Unit 4, Lesson 10 – Fossils
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~11 min
  This video will begin at 57 minutes, 23 seconds. Watch until 1 hour, 8 min., 7 sec.\
Day 108: Unit 4, Lesson 11 – Myth vs. History
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~10 min.
  This video will begin at 1 hour, 18 minutes, 48 seconds. Watch until 1 hour, 21 min., 34 sec.
Day 109: Unit 4, Lesson 12 – Flood Legends: Middle East, Europe, and Africa
- Video: “Suppressed Global Flood Stories, Pt 1” (11 min)
- Video: “Suppressed Global Flood Stories, Pt 2” (8 min)
Day 110: Unit 4, Lesson 12 – Flood Legends: North and South America
- Video: “Suppressed Global Flood Stories, Pt 4” (10 min)
Day 111: Unit 4, Lesson 12 – Flood Legends: Asia and Oceania
- Video: “Suppressed Global Flood Stories, Pt 3” (8 min)
Day 112: Unit 4, Lesson 13 – What does the Flood Mean for Us Today?
- Video: “Have We Found the Remains of Noah’s Ark?” (13 min)
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~3 min)
  This video will begin at 1 hour, 29 minutes, 11 seconds. Watch until 1 hour, 32 min., 37 sec.
- Video: “Most Christians Don’t Know THIS About Noah’s Ark” (14 min)

UNIT 5: Babel and “Race”

Day 127: Unit 5, Lesson 2 – Ancient Languages
- Video: The Ark and the Darkness (Clip: ~3 min) 1:21:35–1:29:10,
  This video will begin at 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds. Watch until 1 hour, 29 min., 10 sec.
- Video: “How Languages Evolve” (4 min)

Special Topic: The Age of the Earth & Dating Methods

Day 136: Special Topic – Radiometric Dating
- Video: “How Does Radiometric Dating Work?” (5 min)
- Article: “Radioisotope Dating: Dire Predictions on Dangerous Assumptions”
Day 137: Special Topic – Mount St. Helens
- Video: “How Can Mount St. Helens Help Us Understand Noah’s Flood? – Dr. Steve Austin” (20 min)

Discovering Origins – Student

Discovering Origins

INTRODUCTION: Origins Science and Apologetics

UNIT 1: Worldview and Its Implications

UNIT 2: Evolution

UNIT 3: Dinosaurs

UNIT 4: Noah’s Flood

UNIT 5: Babel and “Race”

Special Topic: The Age of the Earth & Dating Methods

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