creation beliefs (whoops) Flashcards
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Liberal Christians on Creation
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- accept scientific accounts and bible
- Yom means era, so God made the world in eras
- Biblical creation stories are myth (stories with important truths in them, not to be taken literally)
- contradictions in bible accounts e.g. genesis 1 and 2
- science has evidence
- god is omnipotent so behind big bang
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Evangelical Christians on creation
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- science is wrong
- bible is word of god
- Yom means day- god made the earth in 7 days
- genealogies date back 10000 years
- humans made separately to animals not evolved
- devil puts fossil evidence to make life look much older
- god is omnipotent so can create in 6 days
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Science and the world
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- Big Bang
- point of singularity
- 14 billion years ago
- subatomic+ atomic particles
- hydrogen + helium stars and planets
- Stephen Hawking- big bang happened by chance
- no time/space before big bang
- evolution occurred over millions of years
- complex organisms develop from simple ones
- Darwin- study of finches show survival of the fittest and natural selection
- Dawkins- eye is an intelligent design so could have evolved
- Evidence- red shift, microwave radiation, fossils, Darwin’s finch study
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Evangelical beliefs on dominion
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- ‘rule over’ the birds of the air
- only humans made in the image of god
- psalms- ‘god put everything under your feet’
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Liberal views on stewardship
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- ’ rule over’- take care of
- Adam told to ‘till the earth’
- world and animals are creation of god so should be respected
- god saw what he created and said ‘it was good’
- love your neighbour, treat others
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Humanists on looking after the world
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- must look after it for future generations
- have reason as top of food chain so must be responsible
- happiness matters- environmental change
- empathy and compassion
- global warming scientific evidence
- humanists for a better world campaign to have animals stunned before slaughter and for supermarkets to show this on labels
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Genesis stories
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Genesis 1
- God created from nothing
- day 1 light and darkness
- day 2 sky and earth
- day 3 land and sea
- day 4 lights in the sky
- day 5 sea life
- day 6 land animals
- day 7 rest
Genesis 2
- makes Adam from dust
- then animals
- Eve made from Adam’s rib
- puts in garden of Eden
- ‘not good for man to be alone’
- Adam told to till the earth after the fall
