Philosophy - Religion And Science Flashcards
Design Argument:
Created by William Paley
“The marks of design are too strong to be over. Design must have had a designer. That designer must have been a person. That person must be God.”
A watch is a complex thing (Universe)
Cannot manufacture itself, must have a watchmaker
Watchmaker is God
“Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind” - Albert Einstein
Science has no purpose without religion. Needs religions so that it is not physically crippled.
Religion without science has no explanation for why stuff happens.
Pope Francis - “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run that risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that it not so”
Maybe creation story was about evolution over millions of years, no time so 6 days is actually a really long time.
Genesis 1:1-31 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …”
The first day of Creation when God creates light.
Genesis 1:20 “And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.””
God creates animals.
Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.””
God creates man in his image to have dominion over animals (can do what they want)
Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
Created the world in 7 days.
Genesis 1:25 “And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”
God created land animals.
Deuteronomy 25:4 “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.”
Don’t mistreat animals.
Psalm 50:10 “For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.”
Humans do what they want.
Deuteronomy 22:6 “If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.”
Don’t mistreat animals.
Psalm 50:11 “I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.”
Humans rule over animals.
Genesis 2:15 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
People should look after the world.
