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TEXT TYPES WRITINGMay 2011
The theories from the Bible on “The Great Flood’ and ‘ the formation of Grand Canyon’ -‐ Report The aim of this report is to relate the theories from the Bible to modern science theories on ‘The Great Flood’ and ‘the formation of Grand Canyon’ from the Genesis narrative. The ?indings are based on the information from the Bible and the website which creationists have written about history events that occurred in the early time.
I want to share ideas with the people who aren’t yet familiar with how the earth was created and what events had shaped the earth today from the earliest time, even before the human civilization set up. The book ‘How the world began’ by Andrew Matthews contains bountiful stories told by people about how the world began. For instance, there are ‘seven days’ and ‘the great ?lood’ from the bible, ‘Izanagi and Izanami’ from the Shinto legends of Japan, ‘Walking man’ from the legends of the Pima tribe in Arizona and there are almost countless different theories told by other tribes. However, for this report, I will be focused on the Bible. It is the religious belief that humanity, life, and the universe are the construction of a supernatural being.
In general, most of the scientists are in favor of uncovering the mysteries that were left unsolved for decades. The Genesis creation narrative such as ‘the great ?lood’ is one of the examples that were still uncertain. As science developed today, varieties of views advanced with the aim of reconciling science with Genesis creation story. Not only scientists but
also people will appreciate the face that new discoveries from the Genesis creation tale are unearthed and proved scienti?ically, so people will be interested and encouraged to be shared with their ideas in that area.
Anti creationists, the evolutionists from the Charles Darwin’s evolution theory, take issue with the theory of creationism. Moreover, the theory of creationism and the theory of evolution are the most endless controversy ever in the world. So, many will not be willing to be a part of this pugnacious topic.
Even though new facts about the Genesis creation narrative have recently come to light, it is not attractive to some people. However, more people will be enthralled by the further new discoveries from the Genesis story.
The Great Flood
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A proposal to the school
The aim of the proposal is to suggest the raising of funds to set up new classes in Bandung. In these classes, we are going to share ideas which creationists believe that the theories from the Bible are related to the signi?icant occurrences such as Ice Age or the formation of Grand Canyon. We would appreciate receiving grants to cover the cost of travel to Bandung. Living costs will be met by fund raising activities that we are arranging during family fun fair.
The missionaries sent invitations to us to visit Bandung and share ideas with the students about the applications of b ibl ica l s tories on the Earth’s signi?icant events. Even though Indonesia is Islamic country, Bandung has a relatively large number of Christians. So, missionaries hope to fortify the Bandung’s people’s Christian belief and share more ideas from the theories of the Bible. But, there are not enough missionaries in Bandung. They need help.
It is envisaged that the people of Bandung will bene?it from the classes in a several ways. First of all, they will learn the applications of the theories
from Bible on the Earth’s major incidents, as this is one of the main tasks for the group. Secondly, the trip to Bandung will enable the people in Bandung to develop new friendships.
For the students who attend the trip, it will be a precious learning opportunity. The students will be engrossed in all parts of scheduling and organization. What’s more, their public speaking can be enhanced because they give presentations. Moreover, the trip to Bandung will bene?it the students as it will engender a vast amount of interest in Bandung and its people.
This trip will be a unique opportunity for students, and it is fortunate that we are able to have a contact in Bandung who invites us and gives us a chance of setting up classes for Bandung’s people. It will afford all concerned with a vital educational experience.
PROPOSAL
Students in Bandung
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The Noah’s Great FloodI found the Bible contained plenty of fascinating historic stories. The stories left some scientific mysteries like a connection to the todayʼs the Earthʼs formation. Thatʼs the thing what makes me really captivated. Among the stories in the Bible, a hilarious story called ʻ The Great Floodʼ in the Genesis is the best one for me.
When God noticed that the Earth is corrupted and filled with violence through people, God decided to make an end of all living things. By summoning an enormous flood of water upon the Earth, God would destroy all the fresh in which was the breath of life on the Earth. Then, everything on the Earth would be vanished and gone. However, there was an exception. God told Noah who was a virtuous man and blameless in his generation to built himself an ark with his family. So, he and his family could be safe from the flood. Moreover, God would send all the animals on the Earth and commanded Noah to bring two different sexes of every kind of animals into the ark in order to keep them alive from the flood. Righteous Noah did all that God commanded him without any of complains.
Before Iʼd gone thorough this story. I thought Titanic was the most enormous
ship ever on the Earth. But, there was much bigger ship constructed in the Genesis. The Noahʼs Ark was about 450 feet long by 75 feet in beam and 45 feet high. This ark would displace 20000 tons and had a gross tonnage of 14000 tons. In the ark, there were three decks, an 18 inches high window running around the top of the ark under the roof and one door in the side. Even though the ark is incredibly gigantic, many people didnʼt believe whether it was possible for the ark to maintain thousands of species or not. According to Dr. John Morris, the capacity of the Noahʼs ark was about 522 cars, and only 188 cars would be required to carry a pair of each of the 17600 species of animals. Whatʼs more, a lot of scientists were curious about the animals in the ark. This is because thousands of animals are impossible to be taken care with a few people. However, other scientists said that it was possible the animals hibernated most of the days in the ark.
Furthermore, as I mentioned in the first paragraph, the biblical stories such as ʻThe Great Floodʼ left numerous mysteries that might be the clues for how the Earth formed like today from ancient and the clues for what global occurrences happened to the Earth. For instance, ʻThe Great Floodʼ can tell the formation of continents around ʻThe Grand Canyonʼ.
The Noah’s ark
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God created the heaven and earth in the beginning. On the First day of the earth, God summoned the light, and God segregated the light into brightness and darkness. Then, he called the brightness as the daytime and called the darkness as the nighttime.
On the Second day, God said ‘let there be a blue sky’, then the waters separated into two places, above the blue sky which was gaseous water atmosphere and below the blue sky which was ocean.
On the third day, the dry grounds appeared and the ?irst plants were created to grow in immense abundances. After that God distinguished plants in three types. The plants that had a blade of grass called grass, the plants which went to seeds called vegetables and the plants that bore fruits called trees.
On the Fourth day, God told the light frames to be the sun, moon and stars, and they became visible through the blue sky.
They were to serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years." The sun marked the day, the moon the month, and the stars the seasons.
On the Fifth day, God created vast numbers of birds and sea creatures. God said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and ?ill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth”.
On the Sixth day, numerous numbers of land animals are created. Then, God made the ?irst Man and woman, Adam and Eve.
On the seventh day, God had ?inished the work He had been doing, so God rested from all His work. The He blessed the seventh day and made it holy day
CREATIVE WRITINGPoem - The Seven Days
The Seven Days
DIARY REFLECTION AND RESEARCH LOG
For the project, I researched the topic of interest to me, the theories from the Bible. But, the project had a strict rule. Our topic must keep an English based perspective to it. Anyway, I wrote ?ive text types. The ?ive text types are report, blog, proposal, creative and the diary re?lection what I
am writing now. First of all, for the report, I reported what was so hilarious about my topic to the people who didn’t know much about the theories from the Bible. What’s more, I mentioned about what educational bene?it my report had. Secondly, I explored a fascinating aspect of my topic in my blog. I contained the story of ‘The Great Flood’ because I found it really interesting. Thirdly, one of the missionaries sent me an invitation from Bandung. By taking this opportunity, I planned to propose the classes about the theories from the Bible to the students in Bandung. Finally, for the creative part,
I created a poem that suited my topic, which was ‘the seven days’. Now, I will tell more about my re?lection on the log.
Reflection
What I hoped to learn initially
I hope to learn how the theories from the Bible relate to the scienti?ic theories on the formation of the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is one of the astonishing and mysterious objects in the world, and has sheer sharp cliffs. A lot of scientists are seeking to ?igure it out where it comes from and how it builds up.
What did I learn
I found that one of the stories in the Bible possibly caused the Grand Canyon to be formed throughout researching. It was ‘The Great
Flood’, one of the Genesis narratives’, which constructed the Grand Canyon, and it was called catastrophism. Moreover, I found another theory that differed to the theory from the Bible, the uniformitarianism. Thus, by comparing those two enormous theories, I was able to learn about the formation of the Grand Canyon from different theories.
What questions remained
unanswered
The thing that still perplexes numerous scientists is the happening after ‘The Great Flood’
occurred. According to the creationists, the weather instantly has changed then the ice age arrives. However, what the creationists say gets biased from other scientists, and it turns out to be controversial issue.
Why
This is because the shortcoming of evidences can’t satisfy non creationists to accept what the creationists have stated.
Isaak, Mark. "What Is Creationism?" The TalkOrigins Archive. 30 May 2000. Web. 18 May 2011. <http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wic.html>.
Ruse, Michael. "Creationism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2007. Web. 17 May 2011. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/creationism/>.
Wikipedia. "Creationism." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 17 May 2011. Web. 17 May 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism>.
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