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    Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism-Workbook
    Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism-Workbook
    Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism-Workbook
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    Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism-Workbook

    By Robert J. O’Keefe

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 24, 2012
    ISBN9781475949667
    Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism-Workbook
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    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

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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

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