End of Year Flashcards
Day 1
Night and Day/Light and Dark
Day 2
Sky and water
Day 3
Land seas and plants
Day 4
Two lights, one bigger one smaller and stars
Day 5
Sea creatures and winged creatures
Day 6
Land animals and humasn
Day 7
Rested
Cosmology
Branch of philisophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the Earth (Space and time
Genesis
First book in the bible (dealing with the creation story and patriarchs) means origin creation or beginning
Fund
A person who takes a holy book a 100% literally as they believe God wrote it
Liberal
A person who believes a holy book is mythologically true and not necessarily literally true. They look for the moral meanings/teachings of stories in holy books
Humanist
A person who does not believe in anything supernatural/god
Secular
Non-religious - religion should not be brought into secular affairs
Evolution
How a species evolves and changes over time. Poorly adapted species will go extinct - survival of the fittest - whilst the fittest live and reproduce. Evolution can lead to complete species change
Seen in bacteria, fossil records and vestigial organs (two tiny bones in a whale)
Big Bang
A huge expansion of all matter c. 13.7 billion years ago
Ethics
A system of moral principles, the study of right and wrong, why things are right and wrong and whether right and wrong exist at all
Science (and empirical observations)
Knowledge or source of knowledge gained from sense (hearing, seeing, touching…)
Young Earth Creationists believe…
the universe is around 10, 000 years old as they added all the ages of people in the bible from Adam and Eve to Jesus and then add c. 200- years
Empirical evidence of the Big Banf
Light shifted towards the red end of the spectrum showing the expansion of the universe and Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation
Belief in God Reason 1
- Ontological:
It is possible to imagine a perfect being. Such a being could not be perfect unless its essence included existence. Therefore a perfect being must exist.
Belief in God Reason 2
Teleological (or design:
Animals, plants and planets show clear signs of being designed for specific ends, therefore there must have been a designer.
Belief in God Reason 3
Cosmological
Everything has to come from something. You cannot make something out of nothing.
Therefore there must have been a ‘First Cause’ that created the ‘something’ (the universe). That First Cause is God.
Belief in God Reason 4
Experiential:
ASome people claim that they have had a religious experience eg, a miracle (a fortuitous event believed to have been caused by divine intervention), a vision, or a particular prayer to God answered.
Therefore God exists.
belief in God Reason 5
Some people say that everyone knows the difference between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. They describe this as having a sense of morality.
This sense of morality has to come from somewhere, and the only possible source is God. Therefore God exists.