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Location:
Wyoming
Synopsis:
For the very last stop of their whirlwind tour of the country, Matt and Tiffany
visit a worldclass dinosaur excavation site in Wyoming.
While looking at
the bones of different dinosaurs, they engage in a riveting debate with
paleontologist Lee Spencer.
The three of them speak very
honestly on controversial themes
that have both fascinated and challenged their intellect all throughout
the entire journey, such as whether or not God and
evolution can coexist, how
science and the Bible conflict, and the bias that both sides share.
Far
from coming to an overarching solution to these issues,
Matt and Tiffany reflect
upon their incredible journey, sharing what they have learned, and where
they think the next path of their lifelong exploration will take them.
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DINOSAUR — A
superorder classification for a group of reptiles
named by Sir Richard Owen (a British creationist)
in 1842. The term comes from two Greek words which
mean “awesome reptile.” The Bible doesn’t
have such a recent term in it, but does describe
the creation of “tanninim,” great sea
creatures, in Genesis 1:21 on creation week’s
fifth day. This word is rendered sometimes as “snake” or “reptile” later
in the Old Testament. Some people think the Leviathan
and (especially) the Behemoth of Job were dinosaurs,
though this seems unlikely. Whatever God created
was “very good;” but by the time of
the Flood, the animal world had degenerated. God’s
judgment on the serpent (Genesis 3:14; Romans 8:19-23)
suggests that all animals would feel the effects
of sin in the form of physical degradation (the
serpent went from a tree dweller to a ground crawler).
If God created great reptiles as part of a perfect
creation (a reasonable assumption), those destroyed
at the Flood might represent a degraded form (which
are the ones we find fossilized).
THEORY — In scientific usage, a model
that can explain and predict future occurrences,
like
the theory of gravity or relativity. The theory
of evolution is accepted as fact by most scientists,
a model that explains many observations.
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