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• Origins **Special Creation** - Biblical principles origins: belief that an all-powerful, wise God created the universe from nothing. **Evolution** - Belief that the universe originated by natural processes over billions of years. - An attempt to explain the world without God and from His responsibility. **Big Bang** - Many students and evolutionists believe this is the starting point in history. **Theistic Evolution** - The attempt to reconcile the Bible with evolution. - It suggests that God started creation, but then evolution was used to complete His creation. **Science** - Cannot make authoritative statements about the origin of the earth. - Deals only with the events that are presently observable, experimentally repeatable. **Conflict Between Special Creation and Evolution** - The conflict is not at science but about what man believes. - Both beliefs are accepted by faith. --- • Geologic Column and Fossils **Circular Reasoning** - The logical fallacy that occurs when the proof of an idea depends on the assumption that the idea is true. - The geological column is based on the theory of evolution; one evolution is stored by the geologic colum...