'God Is The Origin Of The Universe'

Question 1

Orthodox Jews

Answer 1

.accept that the world was created in 6 days by God, comes from Genesis where it states that

Question 2

Fundamentalist Christians

Answer 2

.believe the Bible is the direct word of God and God would never lie so genesis is to be taken litteraly in that God was the creator of the universe and he did his job in 6 x 24 hour days

Question 3

Catholics

Answer 3

Willing to accept more modern scientific ideas about the world, but they still believe God is the origin of the universe. St Augustine stated that God created the world ex nihilo in his book ‘confessions’

Question 4

What did Pope John Paul say?

Answer 4

‘the Catholic church does not require a literal interpretation of genesis. The big bang and evolution could be apart of God’s plan.’

Question 5

Stephen Hawking

Answer 5

Big bang theory - the universe is a unique, spontaneous chance event, it proves there is no need for a creator and things just happen for themselves

Question 6

Richard Dawkins

Answer 6

An atheist who argues that science has disproved God as the origin, the creation of humans is just a lucky chance event

Question 7

Charles Darwin

Answer 7

Theory of evolution - challenges the literally interpretation of genesis in that humans were not created perfectly and instead we evolved over time