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Origins Of Human Life Flashcards

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What does imago dei means

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In the image of god

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What are humans 🗻

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Humans are the pinnacle of creation

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What do all humans have that is created by god that are unique

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A soul

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Where do humans come from

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God just likes children do parents

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God created everyone out of…

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Love, humans have dignity means life is sacred

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What quotes did Catherine of sienna say (only greater than man)

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“The only being greater than man is god”

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What did Catherine of sienna say about man being above creatures

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“Man is placed above all creatures, and not beneath them”

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What did Catherine of sienna say about humans being a mirror

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“Humans mirror the goddess of god”

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What did Catherine of Siena say about our likeness with god

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“God created us in his image and likeness because he loved us ”

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Genesis 1-27

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“So god created mankind in his own image, in imago dei he created them; male and female”

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Genesis 2 (2 points£

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  • god formed Adam from the dust on the ground and breathed life into him
  • eve was created from adams ribs, symbolising partnership and equality
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Why is human lif seen as sacred

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Because it is god given

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What does a soul enable

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Them to have a relationship with god

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‘The origins of species’?

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Theory proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859
It explains that life evolved over millions of years through natural selection

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What do humans share a common ancestor with…

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Apes , evolving over time to develop intelligence language and culture

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Evidence for evolution

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  • fossil records show gradual changes in species
  • genetic similarities between humans and other species
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Why do some religious people reject evolution

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Because it contradicts the idea of humans being created in gods image or sanctity of life

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Why do literalist reject evolution entirely

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They believe it’s the bible is 100% factual and what happened exactly as it says in the bible

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What did Tennyson say about survival of the fittest quote

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“…this is why nature is described as ‘red in tooth and claw” meaning everything is in competition to survive

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How are fossils used as evidence for evolution

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Fossil records reveal a large amount of species tat haven’t survived and also that earlier formes of animal have mutated

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How is dna used as evidence to support evolution

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Suggest there are very close similarities between species

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What did pope Francis say about humans developing

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God created humans and let them develop

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What do catholics believe about evolution (not how but why)

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Not how but why god did what he did

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What did pope Francis say about creation and evolution Co existing quote

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“Competing beliefs in creation and evolution could co - exist”

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What does evolution challenge

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The belief that humans were intentionally created by god

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What do non literalist accept evolution as

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Gods plan

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Theistic evolution?

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The belief that god used the process of evolution to bring about human life

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Soul (humans)

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Humans are spiritual beings with a soul that connect them with god

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Give me a contradiction do this statement ‘god made everything on earth in its final form’

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Organisms are gradually changing not in their final form god didn’t make all the animals in their final form on earth

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Give me a contradiction to this statement ‘god created the world to suit his creations’

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The environment changes and organisms change to meet the environment god didn’t create a world to suit his creatures

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Give me a contradiction to this statement ‘god is omni- benevolent,

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Nature is “red in tooth and claw”- Tennyson. Animals kill animals as part of survival of the fittest. A loving god wouldn’t create such a world

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Who is Richard Dawkins

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And evolutionary biologist and opponents of religions explanation about creation

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What is Richard Dawkins quote (why bother believing in something…)

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“Why bother believing in something when there isn’t a shred of evidence”

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What does Richard Dawkins argue (empirical knowledge)

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He argues that the overwhelming amount of empirical evidence show that there is no designer god

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What does Richard Dawkins say about everything on the earth

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That it’s been created through the process of evolution

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What does Richard Dawkins say about positivity and the existence of god quote

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“There is no positive reason to think that god does exist”

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God of gaps argument?

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Anyone who uses god as an explanation for creation is plugging gaps in their knowledge with a bad explanation

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What is speciesism

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Argument fought by a humanist (peter singer) that being humans is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non- human animals

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