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Origin of Life Equipping Course
A complete education program for home school,
Bible study, Sunday school, or Christian schools.

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Origin of Life Equipping Video course.
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Target audience: 9th grade through adult or anyone younger with a basic background in biology.

Course Outline
This course can be purchased in two formats:
  1. The student manual – a stand-alone self-study manual for those who have some background in beginning biology.

  2. The complete video course which contains 3-hours of video teaching, a student manual, an instructor guide, and CD-ROM (PowerPoint slides, quizzes and answer keys)
Each chapter is written in an easy to understand format complete with critical thinking questions and answers. Each chapter includes:
  • Comprehensive information on the topic
  • Questions that can be used to challenge evolution
  • Supporting quotes by many scientists.
  • Group and individual practice questions



    Chapter 1: Evolution and Natural Selection
    What is evolution?
  • Microevolution
  • Macroevolution
    What is natural selection?
  • Evidence used to support macroevolution
  • Charles Darwin and natural selection
  • Natural selection: three descriptions
  • Natural selection and the eye
    Can mutations cause macroevolution
    Fuzzy and misleading explanations of natural selection
    Scientific method
    Quotes and supporting information
    Group or individual practice questions
    Textbook statements and questions

    Chapter 2: The Miller Experiment
    Review of terminology
    The Miller experiment
    Three critical thinking questions about the Miller experiment:
  • Question 1: What was the early Earth’s atmosphere like?
  • Question 2: Did Miller use intelligent design or chance?
  • Question 3: Did Miller get the right type of amino acids?
    Amino acids and life summary
    The Sidney Fox experiment
    Quotes and supporting information
    Group or individual practice questions
    Overview and technical discussion of hydrolysis
    Textbook statements and questions
    Additional challenges

    Chapter 3: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
    What is thermodynamics?
    The First Law of Thermodynamics
    The Second Law of Thermodynamics
    What is entropy?
    Systems and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
    Origin of life and systems
    Discussion between a creationist and an evolutionist
    A mechanism to capture energy
    A mechanism to utilize captured energy
    A meeting on evolution and the second law
    Two examples revisited
    Evolution and faith
    Ice crystals
    Cell components and the second law
    An argument for the existence of God
    Quotes and supporting information
    Group or individual practice questions
    Textbook statements and questions

    Chapter 4: DNA, RNA and Information
    What are DNA and RNA?
    The challenge to evolution
    DNA contains enormous amounts of information
    DNA replication
    DNA proofreads itself
    Which came first DNA, RNA, or proteins?
    Problems with RNA as the first molecule
    Evolution response
    Can RNA replicate itself?
    More problems with an RNA first world
    More problems: right-handed sugars
    A dual problem (another challenge)
    Information, finches, and DNA
    Review: five major problems
    Where does information come from?
    Two basic formulas
    Information and outside intelligence
    Quotes and supporting information
    Group or individual practice questions
    Textbook statements and questions

    Chapter 5: Facing Challenges
    Recognizing invalid test questions and statements in textbooks
    Responses to textbook statements and test questions
    Handling objections
    Course message

    Appendices
    Appendix – A Answers to session fill-ins
    Appendix – B Natural selection and what is a species?
    Appendix – C Mutations and biological change?
    Appendix – D Probability and the origin of Life
    Appendix – E Understanding and dealing with responses to questions
    Appendix – F Partial list of creation scientists
    Appendix – G Internet creation sites
    Appendix – H 11 tips for students in the science classroom



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