Religion and Life Flashcards
How old do fundamentalists think the universe is
5000 years
Argument against creation story being too simplisitc
- gap theory
- billions of years between Genesis 1:1, 1:2 - Lucifer’s War
From nothing
Ex nihilo
How old do liberals/athiests think universe is
13.7 billion years
Athiest evidence of evolution
Ardi and Lucy
Dominion quote
‘To rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky’
Awe and wonder quote
‘The work of your fingers, the moon and the stars’
Misuse of dominion case
- end time theologists
- actively trying to destroy Earth
Environment case
- Chico Mendes - 1988
- assassinated trying to stop land exploitation in Amazon
Animal experimentation case FOR
Corticosteroids treat inflammatory diseases
Animal experimentation case AGAINST
Huntingdon Life Sciences punching beagle
Quotes for sanctity of life
- ‘you knit me together in your mother’s womb’
- ‘All the days of my life were written down in your big book’
Anglican Church teaching FOR abortion
‘The life of the foetus is not absolutely sacrosanct if it endangers the life of the mother’
Euthanasia case study
Tony Nicklinson starved 2012
Abortion case study
Savita Halappanaver - sepsis
Types of euthanasia
- active
- passive
Pareidolia
Seeing meaningful images/patterns in random stimuli
Life after death case
Jeff Olsen NDE, saw light (heaven)
Arguments FOR life after death
- ‘this very day’
- cycle of samsara
Arguments against life after death
- athiest - no evidence, pareidoila
- shaivist - drop of water
