Origins

Question 1

What is revelation?

Answer 1

The giving of knowledge from god

Question 2

Examples of revelation

Answer 2

Scriptural revelation

Religious experience

Question 3

Strengths of revelation

Answer 3

Provides hope, certainty, security, comfort and guidance.
Provides morality.
Gives sense of purpose.

Question 4

Weaknesses of revelation

Answer 4

Can become outdated
Unreliable-cannot be verified
Tends to be an individual experience

Question 5

Explain god of the gaps

Answer 5

God was he answer to the gaps in human knowledge

Question 6

Explain the scientific method

Answer 6

Scientific method gather empirical knowledge through observation to construct, test and approve/disprove a hypothesis to create a theory.

Question 7

Steps of the scientific method

Answer 7

Only hamsters eat vomit
Observation 
Hypothesis 
Experimentation
Verification

Question 8

Problem with scientific method

Answer 8

Senses can be decieved
Later information can disprove theories-falsification
E.g. at one point the only swans ever seen were shite and many sightings confirmed hat o my swans were white however black swans were later discovered

Question 9

Strengths of scientific method

Answer 9

Doesn’t rely on blind faith

Ordered, reasoned and consistent

Question 10

Describe genesis I

Answer 10

God created the world in 6 days from nothing by the power of speaking things into existence and rested on the 7th
The earth was created perfectly to support human life

Question 11

Order of creation in Genesis I

Answer 11

Light, 
sky, 
dry land, seas,plants
sun moon and stars
sea creatures and flying creatures 
Land animals and humans

Question 12

Weakness to Genesis I

Answer 12

The sun moon and stars where created on the fourth day, so how can there be three days when a day begins at sunrise and ends at sunset.
If all this happened at the beginning then there was no one there to witness it.
Contradicts evolution.

Question 13

Quote from Genesis I

Answer 13

In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth

Question 14

What argument supports the existence of god?

Answer 14

The cosmological argument

Question 15

Summarise the cosmological argument

Answer 15

Everything that exists have a cause and this in turn has a cause and so on and so forth however these causes must have a first cause. The first cause being god as he cannot be caused by definition.

Question 16

Arguments to support cosmological argument

Answer 16

Solves problem of going back infinitely

God does not need a cause

Question 17

Arguments against cosmological argument

Answer 17

If everything has a cause, so must god.

Quantum physics has shown that things can spontaneously appear/disappear without a cause.

Question 18

Describe the Big Bang theory

Answer 18

Around 15 billion years ago there was an enormous explosion of energy that over billions of years, formed our universe.

Question 19

Facts to support the Big Bang theory

Answer 19

The universe is explaining, the red shift principle, background radiation can still be detected from the original explosion.

Question 20

Summarise Genesis 2

Answer 20

God created man perfectly ‘in his image’.

Adam was formed from dust from the ground and eve was formed from one of Adams ribs.

Question 21

Argument to support Genesis 2

Answer 21

The teleological argument

Question 22

Summarise the teleological argument

Answer 22

Many things in nature are so perfectly created that they must have been made through ‘intelligent design’.

Question 23

Example of intelligent design

Answer 23

Hummingbird has unique wing design making them the only birds capable of sustained hovering so they must beat their wing 60 times per second.
Human eye is so complex and clever.

Question 24

Examples to disprove intelligent design

Answer 24

Natural disasters

Mayfly

Question 25

Summarise the theory of evolution

Answer 25

Species have evolved from one common ancestor through natural selection in order to adapt to their environment.

Question 26

Example of evolution

Answer 26

Peppered moth

Giraffe

Question 27

Evidence to support Big Bang theory

Answer 27

Fossils, ape genome, different species have similar characteristics.

Question 28

Incompatibility between science and religion

Answer 28

In Genesis I the sun was created after plants, but science has now shown that there would be no life on earth without the sun
The earth was created perfectly to suit humans however there is fossil evidence of the evolution of different human species, contradicting this.

Question 29

Areas of compatibility between science and religion

Answer 29

The order in which living things are created in Genesis I is the same order to which scientists agree living things were synthesised.
Liberal Christians could believe that the earth was not literally created in 6 days instead it is a parable for a more gradual evolution.
Liberal Christians may believe that the bible was written in a drastically less educated time and still follow the moral guidelines of the bible, but do not take everything to be the truth.
Perhaps god caused the Big Bang

Question 30

Quote that supports compatibility between science and religion

Answer 30

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind”- Albert Einstein