Naturalistic Evolutionary View

Scientists have found that the Earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago by collisions in the giant disc-shaped cloud of material that also formed the Sun. As gravity slowly gathered this gas and dust together into clumps, it became asteroids and small early planets called planetesimals. These objects collided repeatedly and gradually got bigger, building up the planets in the Solar System. Although scientists are very close to answering the question, they still continue to search for the exact answer to how the Earth was created. With all the evidence presented, it is hard to refute from scientific theories. This becomes cumbersome to many religions because in their eyes God has always been the creator of the Earth.

Shifting from the end of the Permian period 250 million years ago into the next era, the Triassic period occurred between 250 and 199 million years ago and was know for further diversifying life on land. After the Permian period, the Triassic period was largely successful in adapting and evolving, as the world was going through many changes. The land mass known as Pangea began its separation, which would be completed in the Jurassic period. The climate was relatively more severe during this time, with hotter summers and colder winters, but because of the warmer atmosphere, there were no polar ice caps at this time. Towards the center of Pangea, it was mostly a dry desert climate. As for life on earth, most of the marine life had been wiped

First, everything was a giant land mass, then it started separating into the continents and oceans formed in between. We know this because the same species of fish live in waters that are very far apart from one another. By 10 million years ago the basic shape had been created. All the moving of the earth’s crust caused it to push up mountains, the Appalachians are probably older than the continental split, the rest of the mountains (in U.S.) are newer.

Major Geological Event: The Earth was formed by gravity pulling debris into a swirling mass of rock, radioactive decay and rock impacts generated large amounts of heat melting the planets together. Gravity allowed it to gain the spherical shape it has. Materials in higher density formed the core (Iron, Nickel) while materials in lower density became the mantle and crust. Tectonic plates moving around so much made Volcanoes and the gasses released slowly formed the atmosphere. First signs of life increased the oxygen content, and in turn caused Oceans to form from the rain.

Old earth, or progressive creationism shares similarities with theistic evolution in that it places the age of the earth at 4-5 billion years ago and the universe at 10-20 billion years ago. However, they are not satisfied with the claim that God-guided evolution brought the world into existence, eventually arriving at the world we live in today. Robert C. Newman, an astrophysicist and New Testament professor acknowledges that it would be possible for God to use evolution as a creation tool, just as it is possible that God created solely through supernatural means. However, he thinks that there are too many unanswered questions left for both positions.

The Earth began several billion years ago, but just six thousand years ago history began to be recorded by people, and only 500 hundred years ago, European conquerors set off into the world, forever changing the balance of the entire planet. 225 million years ago the supercontinent began to drift apart and formed Eurasia Africa Australia and the Americas. It opened up the Atlantic and Indian Ocean as well as narrowing the Pacific Ocean. However land masses and coastal ranges developed at separate times . Basic geography of North America was formed 10 million years ago. The modern geography of the earth however was created by the great ice age 2 million years ago.

In the Holocene Epoch(200,000 years ago), as the polar caps melted and the sea rose, the exposed continental shelf was reclaimed by the ocean. As the ocean waters rose, rivers were covered and lagoons were formed as sandy barriers formed deposited by long shore drift

The Devonian period initiating approximately 416 Mya and culminating 359 Mya represents a geologic time period, which characterizes a major part of the Paleozoic Era. Traversing between the Silurian period (444 - 416 Mya), and Carboniferous period (359 – 299 Mya) the Devonian period epitomizes substantial modifications in the world's ecology and geography.

The Earth was created about 4.5 billion years ago. Since this is a very large time frame, the specific events and types of species have been broken into smaller pieces that are much easier to understand. These smaller pieces are called eras. The eras that the exhibit explores are the Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, and the Cenozoic Era. Evolving Planet exhibit at the Field Museum visits each era and explains the different periods in each era. Evolution is the explanation as to why our world and the species in it are the way they have evolved to be.

Before the discovery of radiometric methods to determine the age of the Earth, the first few attempts were off by thousands of millions

“The Tertiary Period began 65 million years ago and ended just 1.8 million years ago. It was made up of 5 different epochs.” “Paleocene epoch that was 65 to 54 million years ago.” “ Eocene epoch that was 54 to 38 million years ago.” “ Oligocene epoch 38 to 24 million years ago.” “ Miocene epoch 24 to 5 million years ago.” “Pliocene epoch 5 to 1.8 million years ago.”

Seeing that we are in the 8th grade, we know that dinosaurs existed, but how did these ostentatious creatures thrive and survive. Most prestigious scientist accede that the first dinosaurs lived around 500 million years ago. Christians and scientist always have irksome clashes on this subject because of different beliefs. The bible says that the world has only been here for about 6000 years, but it also says in 2 Peter 3:8, “One day is like a thousand years in God’s eyes.” For this reason I believe that the earth might actually be billions of years old. Proof of this theory can be found

The earliest ancestors roamed the earth in the Triassic period which spanned 50.9 million years. At the end of the Triassic another mass extinction Triassic/Jurassic happened. This was followed by the Jurassic period in which large gymnosperm started growing leading to increased size of herbivore dinosaurs. First blood sucking insects are evolved. The largest theropod, Spinosaurus appears in fossil record. In the Cretaceous, first ants and snakes are evolved. The king of dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus Rex makes it to the fossil records. Cenozoic is the current Era in which we are living. It started by the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event which eliminated most dinosaurs and marine predators like Mosasurs except birds. Mammals evolved from small rat like creatures to dog sized predators later evolving to Mastodons. Mammoths evolved from small herbivore. First members of genus Homo known as Homo Habillis appears on fossil record. Neanderthals, the human ancestors die out with other species like Dodo, Wooly Rhino. Finally, all these resulted in evolution of modern day Humans. I tried finding a visual aid but all the cool species like dinosaurs and wooly mammoths are already dead. Therefore, I present myself as we humans are the result of a very long course of evolution and a part of the geological

According to astronomical research and geological evidence, scientist indicate the universe is approximately thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty billion years old. The first link to humanity started with a primate group called Ardipithecus. While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about two hundred thousand years ago. The age of the Earth is estimated about four point fifty four billion years because that is the age of the oldest rocks with fossil evidence of life on earth. The oldest rocks on Earth found to date are the Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada near the Great Slave Lake, which are four point three billion years old. The study of the origin of life on Earth, more specifically abiogenesis, is the natural process of life arising from non-living matter. Life on Earth is believed to have began from organic compounds about three point eight to four billion years ago. Despite several competing theories for how life arose on Earth scientist only know when life first appeared on Earth and are still far from answering how it appeared. Since it is hard to prove or disprove them, no fully accepted theories of the origin of life exists.

Jurassic is a period of time with Dinosaurs, rodents and birds. There were also island seas consisting of sharks, sea monsters and blood-red planktons. The existing plants in that period were cycads, ferns and conifers. The Mesozoic era was about 245 million years ago to 65 years ago, so it almost lasted about 180 years in total. The Mesozoic era is divided into three periods of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Mesozoic era means middle animals and it is the era, which the word’s fauna has changed from what is in the Paleozoic era and the most famous organisms of this era are dinosaurs. In the Mesozoic era, the extinction of more than 90 percent of species in the earth was observed and the reason behind it was mostly volcanic eruptions and climate changes. On the other hand, this era had massive changes that represented ecological niches and rise to new creatures such as rodent-size mammals and first dinosaurs. In Triassic, which was the first period of Mesozoic, the mammals and first dinosaurs existed. Later than that, the second period was Jurassic, which giant shaped dinosaurs and other kinds of dinosaurs were developed. Besides that the first flowering plants and primitive birds, with long teeth appeared in that era as well.