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Purposeful Design Young Explorer’s Club Dear Mom or Dad,

Now is the perfect time to “join the club”!

Yes, now that you have your copy of the evangelical book, Purposeful Design – Understanding the Creation, we all can explore the amazing wonders that our Lord God has done for us -‐ -‐ and our children.

Speaking of our children, I devised the Young Explorer’s Club for your children -‐ -‐ to increase their experience, understanding, and comprehension as they explore the book’s chapters – Day One thru Day Seven.

The workbooks are short, sweet, and fun. Each chapter set contains a Kid’s Workbook (with questions), a Teacher’s Set (with answers), and a Certificate of Completion.

As children of various ages and grades have varying levels of comprehension, moms/dads (the teachers) will readily see ways to adjust their approach for the maximum kid’s learning. Please help with answers where needed. With some time for experience and feedback we plan to expand to three or more different sets of Workbooks (such as Pre-‐school, Elementary-‐school, and High-‐school).

Please go to our website www.Jayschabacker.com, and download one or two chapter sets (free of charge), or download all of them.

You will note that the workbooks are structured to make the youngsters THINK, stretch their minds and comprehension, and become more aware of some of the Bible’s wonderful scriptures -‐ -‐ and, even pray! Do you have any ideas of what we should add?

Your participation and help will certainly make the “exploration” fun – and a success.

And please get back to me by email at [email protected] about your “young explorer” experience, so that I may move ahead with changes as needed and improvements.

Thanks for joining “the club”. In Christ,

Jay Schabacker

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Purposeful Design: Young Explorer’s Club

The First Day The Creation of the Heavens and the Earth

Genesis 1:1-‐5 – In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of god was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day.

Question – What is your favorite sentence or group of words in Genesis 1:1-‐5?

Do you want to make it a “memory verse”? _______

Think about it. Tell us, in your own words, what did God do for us in Day One?

Now a tougher question: What two things did God do to make it possible that there would be “day” and “night” in one 24 hour day?

1) ____________________________________________________________ 2) ____________________________________________________________

Question Set A Test of Understanding and Comprehension

1. The writer of ___________ uses the word _____________ to describe God’s involvement.

_____________ in the Hebrew language brings to mind an image of a mother hen brooding over her chicks – as ______ did.

2. Our Creator, God, was _____% involved in this developing creation.

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3. God doesn’t discuss His beginnings in Genesis. He simply explains what he did: “In the beginning God __________.”

4. The second law of thermodynamics states that, with time, the energy for useful work is (and always has been): (Please choose one, below)-‐

a. Increasing ____ b. Staying the same ____ c. Decreasing ____

5 .If you start a top spinning, soon it will:

(Please choose one, below)-‐

a. Speed up_____ b. Keep spinning _____

c. Slow down ______

6. Does the second law of thermodynamics guide the motion of the planets?

Yes ____ No ____ (Or, who does? _______)

7. Albert Einstein, a believer in intelligent design, and an intelligent designer himself, once put it this way: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is ___________________.”

(Extra credit: What is Einstein famous for? ____________________________________)

8. Our universe is orderly and follows rules of “nature” that do not change. And, Einstein said “The fact that there are rules at all is kind of a __________.”

9. The earth orbits the sun at a never changing speed of 66,700 miles per ______.

The complete orbit around the sun takes approximately ______ days.

Some Verses for Reflection – For Day One

Jeremiah 10:12 – But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Hebrews 11:3 – By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

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Psalms 90:2 – Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Isaiah 40:22 – He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and the people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live it.

Job 26:7 – He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

What is your favorite of these five above verses? ___________________Why?____________________

More Exercises

1 In your own words, what do you think was neat about what God did on Day One? 2. In your own words, how do you know that God loves you very much? 3. Of the verses pertaining to the chapter, Day One, what one would you say is your favorite? And, what does it mean to you? When you think of Day One, what first comes to your mind? Can you sketch a picture of it?

Closing Prayer: With your Mom, Dad, or other loved one; Please pray a prayer of thanksgiving for what God has done for us.

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The Second Day The Creation of the Atmosphere And the Water

Genesis 1:6-‐8 – And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the second day.


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Do you want to make it a “memory verse”? ________

Think about it. Tell us, in your own words, what did God do for us in Day Two?

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Now a tougher question: Why do you think God did not say that “it was good” on Day One or Two?

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1. The second day of creation dealt with the ________ and the _________. 2. The water below the sky level was _______ ( ____ ), and the water above was gaseous -‐

__________ _________. 3. The “Rain Cycle” requires many complicated ingredients. Starting with the vast oceans

taking up (31%, 41%, 51%, 61%, 71%, 81%) (pick one _____ %) of the earth’s surface, see if you can put these ingredients in order (1 to10) ending with “rivers flow”:

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(clouds, evaporation, dust in atmosphere, precipitation, vast oceans, warm earth, sun, wind, earth rotation, rivers flow) 1. _________________________ 2. _________________________ 3. _________________________ 4. _________________________ 5. _________________________ 6. _________________________

7. __________________________ 8. ________________________

9. __________________________ 10. ________________________

4. Such an intricate rain cycle is but another example of the complexities of design God

created for ______ benefit. 5. ______ % of the earth’s surface being ocean is just perfect for our proper amount of

rain falling on our earth. 6. More than 71% ocean would be a problem – too much _______ and extreme ______. 7. Less than 71% ocean would also be a problem – not enough

_______ and so vast ________.

Some Scripture Verses for Reflection – For Day Two

Jeremiah 10:13 – When He thunders the waters in heavens roar; He makes the clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Psalms 95:5 – The sea is his for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Psalms 74:15 – It was you who opened up springs and streams; you dried up the ever flowing rivers.

Proverbs 8:27-‐28 – I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep.

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Job 28:25-‐28 – “When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm, then he looked at wisdom and appraised it; he confirmed it and tested it. And he said to man; ‘The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.’”

Ecclesiastes 1:6 – The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

More Exercises

1. In your own words, what do you think was amazing about what God did on Day Two? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. In your own words, how do you know that God loves you very much?

3. Of the verses pertaining to the chapter, Day Two, what one would you say is your favorite? And, what does it mean to you? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. When you think of Day Two, what first comes to your mind? Can you sketch a picture of it?

Closing Prayer: With your Mom, Dad, or other loved one. Please pray a prayer of

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thanksgiving for what God has done for us.

Purposeful Design: Young Explorer’s Club The Third Day The Creation of the Dry Land and Vegetation

Genesis 1:9-‐13 – And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seeds in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seeds in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the third day.


Do you want to make it a “memory verse”? __________

Think about it. Tell us, in your own words, what did God do for us in Day Three? _____________________________________________________________________________


1. Genesis 1:9-‐13 declares the two-‐fold work of God on the third day of creation:

a. Dividing the __________ from the __________, and;

b. Bringing forth the _______________ on the land. 2. By the end of the third day our Creator had

constructed the ________, ________ and atmosphere, along with the _______ _________ of the oceans, all necessary for _______ to exist on our _________.

3. Our Purposeful Designer created more than (58,000, 158,000, 258,000, 358,000) varieties (choose one number ____________) of plants that have been discovered and named so far. And, new ____________, even now, are continuing to be _____________. “An _________ a Day Keeps the Doctor ___________.”

4. The common apple contains all of the following: Salt, Vitamin C, Fiber, Pectin, Water (except what among those five listed above -‐ ___________.)

5. Vegetation provides us with __________ -‐ including cereals, _________, _________, herbs, edible ________, cooking oils, sugar from ________ and sugar cane. If you can, name five other items of “vegetation” that you can eat _________, ___________, ____________, ___________, and __________.

6. Non-‐food vegetation products include __________ from trees for building, _________ for clothing, coal, soaps, paints and dyes. Extra credit – can you name five more? ___________, _____________, _____________. ______________, and _____________.

7. Medicinal plants include the _________ plant as an anesthetic, ___________ and __________ to drink as stimulants, and the __________ plant to produce ___________ and ____________ to ease pain. _________ are a type of “home remedy” medicinal.

8. ________________ also provides aesthetic benefits such as providing ___________, lawn __________, and landscaping.

9. Vegetation can be thought of as providing beauty to the beholder in all of the following (your back yard, a flower, weeds with sharp prickles, a pleasant hillside, an arboretum) – (except which one of the above)? ________________________________________.

10. Also, we use vegetation or think of it in relation to literature and religion, state emblems, wreaths in memorials, and in mythology. Does your state have a state flower? ______________; a state tree? _______________.

Some Verses for Reflection – For Day Three

Jeremiah 5:22 – “Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.”

Proverbs 8:29 – when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overlap his command, and when he marked out the foundation of the earth -‐

Hebrews 6:7 – Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

Luke 6:43-‐45 – No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.

Genesis 2:9 – And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground – trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Psalms 1:3 – He is like a tree planted by the streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

Exodus 3:8 – So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

More Exercises

1. In your own words, what do you think was amazing about what God did on Day Three?

2. In your own words, how do you know that God loves you very much?

3. Of the verses pertaining to the chapter, Day Three, what one would you say is your favorite? And, what does it mean to you?

4. When you think of Day Three, what first comes to your mind? Can you sketch a picture of it?

Closing Prayer: With your Mon, Dad, or Other Loved One

Please pray a prayer of thanksgiving for what god has done for us.

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The Fourth Day The Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars Genesis 1:14-‐19 – And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark the seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the fourth day.


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Do you want to make it a “memory verse”? __________

Think about it. Tell us, in your own words, what did God do for us in Day Four?

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1. God made two great lights – the greater light (the ______) to govern the _______

and the lesser light (the _________) to govern the night. 2. The interaction of the _______ with the earth marks the seasons and days and

years. The seasons are created because the earth around the sun in a __________ -‐ approximately 365 days.

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3. Also, the “seasons” are possible because God set the earth’s axis of spin at a tilt of (13.5, 23.5, 33.5, 43.5) degrees from the vertical (fill in the correct number _________) – as our earth orbits the sun.

4. In the “Winter” the earth’s Northern Hemisphere gets less sunlight because the earth’s axis of spin is tilted away from the _____. This is a good time for _________ to hibernate and young children to go ice ___________.

5. Some _________ months later, in the “Summer” the earth’s Northern Hemisphere gets more sunlight because the earth’s axis of spin is tilted more towards the ______. This is a good time for ____________ in your backyard pool.

6. The first day of summer, June 21, (called the Summer Solstice) is the ___________ day of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere.

7. The first day of winter, December 21, (called the Winter Solstice) is the ___________ day of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere.

8. If, by chance, our earth’s axis of spin was at no tilt from the vertical as the earth orbits the sun, our Northern Hemisphere would experience (no seasons, mild seasons, extreme seasons). Please choose one answer

______________________. 9. If, by chance, our earth’s axis of

spin was at an extreme tilt from the vertical as the earth orbits our sun, the Northern Hemisphere would experience (no seasons, mild seasons, extreme seasons). Please choose an answer _____________________.

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10. At the location where you live, at each day the sun will repeat its sunrise time – year after ________. For example, if the sunrise was to take place at 6:54 a.m. where you live on September 21, the next year and the year after (on September 21) the sunrise would take place at _______ a.m. (This example is actually for the location of Washington, D.C. in the Northern Hemisphere of the United States.

11. When our moon is between our sun and the earth, we call it Phase 1 or the __________ phase of the moon (or a “New Moon”).

12. About 14 days later our moon is on the side of the earth opposite the ______. Therefore, the entire moon is lit by the _______. At nighttime we call it a “_____________”, and it is in Phase 3.

13. The (sun, moon, stars) is/are the primary cause of what we call the “ocean tides”. Please choose one ________.

14. The large size of the _________ is primarily what causes our ocean tides because of the attractive pull on our earth’s oceans.

15. If that attractive pull on our earth’s oceans was much (more, less), we would experience very much diminished tides. Please choose one _________.

16. When God made the stars, they were made as numerous (some scientists estimate) as the number of grains of _______ on the ocean’s shores. Yet, God only used ________ words in Genesis to tell of them!

17. A recent astronomer speculated that the number of stars in our heavens was in the range of one thousand trillion stars. That number is 10 with (3,13,23,33,43) zeroes. Please choose one number _______.

18. Polaris, the North Star, which, when seen from the Northern Hemisphere, always stays within one degree of the celestial _________ _________.

19. For additional credit: The first three days of the creation are sometimes referred to as the “______________” phase. The second three days (days 4, 5, & 6) are then referred to as the “_____________” phase.

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20. Starting on Day _______ , the heavens (created in Day _______ ) were populated with the sun, moon, and _______.

Some Scripture Verses for Reflection – For Day Four

Psalm 136:8 – The sun to govern the day, His love endures forever.

Psalm 19:1 – The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Isaiah 40:26 – Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Psalm 8:3-‐4 – When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

Joshua 10:12-‐14 – On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of the Aijalon. So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a man. Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel!

Psalm 121:5-‐6 – The Lord watches over you – the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

Psalm 74:16-‐17 – The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and the moon. It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter.

Deuteronomy 4:19 – And when you look up in the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars – all the heavenly array – do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Jeremiah 33:22 – I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.

1 Corinthians 15:41 – The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another, and star differs from star in splendor.

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More Exercises

1. In your own words, what do you think was amazing about what God did on Day Four? 2. In your own words, how do you know that God loves you very much? 3. Of the verses pertaining to the chapter, Day Four, what one would you say is your favorite? And, what does it mean to you? 4. When you think of Day Four, what first comes to your mind? Can you sketch a picture of it?

Closing Prayer: With your Mom, Dad, or Other Loved One Please pray a prayer of thanksgiving for what God has done for us.

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The Fifth Day The Creation of the Birds and Fish

Genesis 1:20-‐23: And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the fifth day.


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Think about it. Tell us, in your own words, what did God do for us in Day Two?

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Please note something somewhat interesting. God did not “bless” what he created on Day One, Day Two, Day Three, or Day Four. But, after he created the birds and the fish on Day Five, “God blessed them”. Can you think of any short explanation for this?

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1. God said, “Let the ____________ team with living creatures, and

let _________ fly above the earth across the expanse of the _________.”

2. Birds and ___________ clean up the earth; vultures clean the land; catfish clean the __________ floor.

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3. Webster defines ____________ as a natural or inherent aptitude or capacity.

4. Many species of birds _____________ to take advantage of warmer seasonal temperatures, which offers them a greater availability of food sources and breeding.

5. Once, (Henry Morris, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Ken Ham, Galileo) wrote, “Many instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear to a reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole Evolution theory.” Of the five listed above, please list one name. ___________________

6. The modern _______________ takes its cue from God’s design of the __________ to achieve the best result.

7. Frozen ________ at the surface insulates the water below (keeping it from _____________) – so the fish don’t _____________, but survive through the cold northern winters.

8. Many in the ocean, including the (dumbo octopus, swordfish, blobfish, hagfish, yeti crab) look weird and somewhat humorous. Which of the five above does not fit here ? ______________________

Some Scripture Verses for Reflection – For Day Five

Genesis 2:19 – Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and the birds of the air.

Psalms 104:25 – There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number – living things both large and small.

Proverbs 27:8 – Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

Ecclesiastes 10:20 – Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.

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Luke 9:58 – Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Luke 5:6 – When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.

Jonah 1:17 – But the Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.

John 21:5 – He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?”

More Exercises

1. In your own words, what do you think was amazing about what God did on Day Five? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. In your own words, how do you know that God loves you very much?

3. Of the verses pertaining to the chapter, Day Five, what one would you say is your favorite? And, what does it mean to you? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. When you think of Day Five, what first comes to your mind? Can you sketch a picture of it?



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Purposeful Design: Young Explorer’s Club The Sixth Day Creation of Land Creatures and Humans

Genesis 1:24-‐31 – And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let us make man in our own image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over the earth, and over the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every living creature that moves on the ground.” Then God said, “I give you every seed-‐bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has

fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.


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Think about it. Tell us, in your own words, what did God do for us in Day Six?

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The scripture Genesis 1:24-‐31 for Day Six is much longer than each of the scripture passages for the earlier creation days. Can you offer some reasons why this may be so?

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1. Because of his great _______ for us, ________ purposefully created

many types of _________ animals for our use. 2. Do you have a favorite animal, at this time, that you can name? What

would that be? ______________________ 3. The amazing __________ is designed to help we ___________ in hot and

dry desert operations. 4. The camel’s stomach has a built-‐in “canteen” that can hold (10, 20, 30,

40, 50) gallons of water. What would the correct number be? ______ 5. Cattle and cows provide for us all of the following (milk, wool, meat,

hide, fertilizer) except one item on the list above. What is it? ______________

6. What is your favorite cut of beef that you enjoy eating from a steer? _______________

7. God designed us humans “special” (we are created in the image of God).Us humans are given intellect and will, abstract-‐thinking skills, ability to question, to show emotion, and creativity, and we are given a moral consciousness or God consciousness. It may be debatable which of the above have also been given to animals on this earth. However, most authorities would agree that animals have not been endowed with a _____________________________ or a ______________________________.

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8. Your appendix once thought of as a “vestigial appendage” (that is to say “useless”), is now considered _______________ as a “safe house” for beneficial bacteria in our human gut.

9. Charles Darwin, in 1859, considered the human cell (a lump of carbon, incredibly complex, slime, like an organized city). Please fill in the blank _________________ with the correct word or phrase from the above.

10. Your __________ is located above your ___________ so as to best gauge the scent of food being placed into the ___________.

11. You are in the dentist’s chair and the dentist is working on your teeth. You need to breathe, so you are glad that God equipped you with a _________.

12. Your _________ is your body’s miraculous central processor surrounded by a protective hard bony substance often called your ___________.

13. Your eyebrow is designed to protect your ____________. 14. A scientist recently stated that the human __________ (your human ________) is the most complex arrangement of matter in the universe. 15. The Creator has blessed ______ with a wonderful body – and mind! 16. Don’t look down on _____________, ______________, and ______________ to make you get “smarter”.

Some Scripture Verses for Reflection – For Day Six

Genesis 2:7 – The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Malachi 2:10 – Have we not one Father? Did not one God create us?

Leviticus 17:11 – For the life of the creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your selves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

Proverbs 6:6-‐8 – Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

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Psalms 139:14-‐16 – I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depth of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Job 40:15 – Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.

Genesis 5:1-‐2 – When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them “man”.

Matthew 19:4 – “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator made them ‘male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.”

More Exercises

1. In your own words, what do you think was amazing about what God did on Day Six? 2. In your own words, how do you know that God loves you very much? 3. Of the verses pertaining to the chapter, Day Six, what one would you say is your favorite? And, what does it mean to you?

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4. When you think of Day Six, what first comes to your mind? Can you sketch a picture of it?

Closing Prayer: With your Mom, Dad, or other loved one. Please pray a prayer of thanksgiving for what God has done for us.

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The Seventh Day God blessed the Seventh Day and made it Holy

Genesis 2:1-‐3 – Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.


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Think about it. Tell us, in your own words, what did God do for us in Day Seven?

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Although the word “Sabbath” is not used in Genesis 2:1-‐3, the Hebrew word translated “rested” is the origin of the noun “Sabbath” which is now considered a day of rest. How do you keep the “Sabbath” day of rest?

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1. It should not surprise us to know that, of all the species on earth, man is the only one with whom He shared information about the creative process. And the __________

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makes clear that our Designer wants us to recognize the need to refresh ourselves and think of Him – at least ________ __ ____________.

2. Exodus 20:8-‐10 states – Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but on the ___________ day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in _______ days the Lord made the _____________ and the __________, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the ___________ day. Therefore the Lord blessed the _______________ day and made it holy.

Some Scripture Verses for Reflection

Psalms 100:2 – Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

Hebrews 4:3-‐7 – Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “And on the seventh day God rested from all his work.” And again in the passage above he says,” They shall never enter my rest.” It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. Therefore, God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

Isaiah 58:13-‐14 – “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

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then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” The mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Romans 1:20 – For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Nehemiah 9:6 – You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is in it, the seas and all that is in them. You gave life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

Isaiah 45:12 – It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.

Isaiah 45:18 – For this is what the Lord says – he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited – he says: “I am the Lord and there is no other.”

Psalms 104:24 – How many are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

Jeremiah 31:35 – This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar – the Lord Almighty is his name.

Psalms 96:11-‐13 – Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it; let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy; they will sing before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth.

Amen.

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More Exercises

1. In your own words, what do you think was amazing about what God did on Day Seven? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. In your own words, how do you know that God loves you very much?

3. Of the verses above, what one would you say is your favorite? And, what does it mean to you? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. When you think of Day Seven, what first comes to your mind? Can you sketch a picture of it?



Purposeful Design Young Explorer’s ClubCriss-Crossword Puzzle

Answer the following questions to complete the word puzzle:(On the puzzle, the words go to the right and down.)

1. God was __________________ over the waters. (See book page 10)2. A believer in Intelligent Design. (See page 14)3. Whenitfreezes,itfloats.(Seepage60)4. What God said on Days 3, 4, and 5. (See pages 22, 28, and 54)5. What God called the gathered waters. (See page 22)6. WhatGodcalledthelight.(Seepage10)7. Causedbya231/2degreestilt.(Seepage33)8. Fordeserttravel.(Seepage66)9. ProgrammedbyGod.(Seepage56)10. ForThanksgivingdinner.(Seepage65)11. Adomesticpet.(Seepage65)12. What God did. (See page 10)13. “The heavens and the ____________.” (See page 10)14. Tostorefatforareserveoffood.(Seepage67)15. Darwin dubbed it “slime.” (See page 74)

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