{"id":477,"date":"2007-08-03T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T13:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/477"},"modified":"2007-08-03T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T13:05:27","slug":"myths-about-trees-eve-dna-and-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/477","title":{"rendered":"Myths about Trees, Eve, DNA, and Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from the book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourbook.com\/BookInfo\/IP13683-04.asp\">Myths: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning<\/a><\/i>  by Israel Galindo. How well do you know fact from fiction? <\/p>\n<p>MYTH: Trees are critical to earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survival because they provide most of the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oxygen through photosynthesis.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/mythscover1.gif' alt='mythscover1.gif' \/><\/p>\n<p>TRUTH: While trees are important to the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ecology, up to 90% of the photosynthesis on earth is produced, not by trees, but by algae\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom single celled organisms that float on the water to more complex forms like kelp.<\/p>\n<p>MYTH No. 2: The Bible is primarily a historical record. Since it is inspired by God, it records accurately and factually all matters of history, science, and nature.<\/p>\n<p>TRUTH: The Bible is primarily a book of faith. While Christians believe it to be inspired, and therefore Scripture, it does not make claims of accuracy in matters of science, nature, or even history. What the Bible does claim for itself is authority in matters of faith. It is concerned with matters of truth, not matters of fact. And even then it becomes a matter of correctly <i>interpreting the meaning<\/i> of the Bible passage under study.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Bible is not primarily a science, biology, or history textbook, we continue to be impressed with the agreement between the Bible and science. For example, while the story of Adam and Eve is mythic literature that explains metaphysical questions of the origin of humankind (the ontological why, the nature, and the purpose for our existence\u00e2\u20ac\u201das opposed to the how), science supports the idea that we all have the same grandmother. When scientists compare DNA sequences among different groups of humans, they find that all modern humans can trace their ancestry back to a single woman, whom they have christened \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (or, to be exact, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitochondrial_Eve\">Mitochondrial Eve<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). They speculate that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d lived in Africa about two hundred thousand years ago, and was the distant great-grandmother of us all.<\/p>\n<p>You can order a copy of the book <i>Myth: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning<\/i> by Israel Galindo (ISBN 0-9715765-4-8) directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galindoconsultants.com\">Educational Consultants.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/galindobanner3.jpg' alt='galindobanner3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from the book Myths: Fact and Fiction about Teaching and Learning by Israel Galindo. How well do you know fact from fiction? MYTH: Trees are critical to earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survival because they provide most of the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oxygen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}