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Natural History as a Foundation foCreation Stewardship
Keith B. MillerDepartment of GeologyKansas State University
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We cannot be proper stewards of creation without knowing that creation, and we cannot know creation without knowing
something of its history.
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Just as who we are as persons is a consequencof our history, so the character of the natural
world is a consequence of its history. To understand our physical and biological
environment we must understand its history.
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Flint Hills landscapeFlint Hills landscape
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The landscape of an area is a result of the geology of its underlying rock as well as its
erosional and climatic history.
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Geology underlying landscapeGeology underlying landscape
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Chert (Flint) withPermian limestonChert (Flint) withi
Permian limestone
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Pleistocene glacial erraticPleistocene glacial erratic
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Continental Ice SheetsContinental Ice Sheets
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Stream erosionStream erosion
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The landscape in turn has a major impact on its biological communities and
on human history and culture.
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Vegetation Responds to GeologyVegetation Responds to GeologyVegetation Responds to Geology
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The geology of an area provides a record of the complex changes that have occurred
during Earth history and of the wide range of time scales over which those changes have
occurred. It reveals the dynamics of changing paleogeography, climates and ecosystems.
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Permian worldPermian world
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AlienAlien--lookinglookingVegetationVegetation
LycopsidsLycopsidsSphenopsidsSphenopsids
FernsFernsTree FernsTree Ferns
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PelycosaursPelycosaurscommon common
Permian predatorsPermian predators
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P i R fP i R f
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The distribution and interrelationships of species modern ecosystems is a result of the evolutionar
response of organisms to their dynamically changing environments. That evolutionary historis recorded in the fossil record, in the anatomy anbehavior of each organism, and in the amino aci
sequence of each genome.
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Pleistocene ecologyPleistocene ecology
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Tallgrass prairie ecosystemTallgrass prairie ecosystem
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Understanding natural history must be a fundamental goal of creation stewardship. We cannot fully and properly understand creation without reference to its complex
dynamic history.
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Nature is a complex of interacting systems, each of which is composed of entities which
are themselves continually responding to theirdynamically changing environments.
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Bison grazingBison grazing
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Fire ecologyFire ecology
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As humans we are part of the dynamic interacting network of nature.
As God’s image bearers we are called to be active participants in creation in a way that
preserves and redeems.
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Understanding the dynamic processes of thenatural world, and the time scales at which
they occur, better enables us to anticipate andrecognize the consequences of human activity
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Grazing CattleGrazing Cattle
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C t Pi t I i tiCenter Pivot Irrigation
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Removing 280 million year old carbonRemoving 280 million year old carbon
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Our existence changes the rest of the natural world of which we are a part. By our actions we alter the ecology, chemistry, climate, and even geology of the planet. If those actions
are not informed by an understanding of natural history, we may find that we are
destroying the very systems that God has established for the fruitfulness and flourishing
of the creation.