Week 1: "In The Beginning" - Cover the glory of the Lord's creation, fitting six days of work (and one of rest) into 5 days of class. Homework includes an essay on what you would do if you existed with omnipotence over a formless void of heavens and waters, an assignment to create-your-own animal and to come up with a fake line of fossils to put in the ground that are similar to it, and daily prayer.
Week 2: "The Great Flood" - Discuss with the class and address their concerns about where six miles of water came from and went to. Homework: A one page essay on how well it worked to get rid of the evil people in the world, and an in-class debate on how insects and freshwater fish survived. Conclude with daily prayer. ** Schedule after Physics class, so they cannot ask about potential energy.
Week 3: "Radiocarbon Dating" - Begin the week on monday with a "Radiocarbon Dartboard", and give each student a dart with words such as "faith", "love", and "reason" to throw. Focus on how the fossils date the rocks, and the rocks date the fossils. Homework includes a worksheet on how the nuclei of atoms were less stable in the past, but released less heat and radiation when they split; students must determine how much to change the stability of each isotope. Conclude with daily prayer.
Week 4: "The Fossils" - Explain how polystriate fossils prove that all fossils were buried by a great flood, but that multiple, aligned tree horisons don't disprove it. Explain that footprints in the middle of "flood sediment" and delicate things such as fossil eggs were placed there by scientists to discourage believers. Assignments include determining how often volcanoes would have to alter between erupting and not erupting, and how fast the ash would have to spread outward in sheets, to produce the Columbia River basalts, in addition to daily prayer.
Week 5: "Why Are Monkeys Still Around?" Begin an in-depth study of the competing theory, evolution, with this intriguing question. Homework assignments include finding things on the beach that could not have evolved there, creating a wind-machine tornado and seing if it randomly assembles things, and a 500 word oral report on how evolution doesn't explain things whales, the origin of life, and light. Maintain daily prayer.
Week 6: "Earth's Magnetic Field, The Shrinking Sun, Man Tracks, and More". Read chapter 5 from the textbook provided kindly by Answers In Genesis, authored by Kent Hovind. Have students answer the questions at the end; end each class with daily prayer.
Week 7: Spring break - rest, and pray.
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"Illuminant light,
illuminate me."