Religion And Life Flashcards
Scientific truth comes from making a….
Hypothesis
What does science aim to answer?
How questions
What does religion try and answer?
Why questions
What’s the Big Bang theory?
The universe began as an incredibly small and dense point known as a singularity which started to expand 13.8 billion years ago.
As it expanded and cooled gases formed and then matter which formed stars and galaxies
What do Fundamentalist Christians argue about the Creation story?
That the world was created by God in 6 days.
What do Creationists say?
- God wouldn’t lie in the Bible
- “it was good” so why would there need to be evolution?
- have a way for explaining physical evidence, ex Noah’s flood washed away dinosaurs
What do Liberal Christians believe about the Creation?
- he was behind the universe
- we are scared and God cares for us
- humans have been giving the job of looking after the world
Give some physical examples for the scientific explanation
Red shift (light waves are becoming longer and redder as they move away)
Cosmic background radiation
Bible evidence for Creation
In the beginning God created heaven and earth
Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air…..
God saw all that he had made and it was good